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To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
Albert Einstein
Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
Mark Twain
Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
Evelyn Waugh
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
William Hazlitt
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
Orson Scott Card
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
Bertrand Russell
Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.
Czesław Miłosz
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.
Thomas Paine
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
William Hazlitt
No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.
William Hazlitt
There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.
Xenophon
Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.
Apuleius
The shortest way to wealth is through the contempt of wealth.
Seneca
The lowest form of popular culture-lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives-has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
Carl Bernstein
Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
Benjamin Franklin
Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.
Arthur Schopenhauer
It's very difficult to feel contempt for others when you see yourself in the mirror.
Harold Pinter
Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
Thucydides
I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him, either.
Sophocles
Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but - more frequently than not - struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.
Martin Luther
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