#contempt

..What our contempt often hurls from us, We wish it our again; the present pleasure, By revolution lowering,does become The opposite of itself.. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news. ↗

— John le Carre

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This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high. ↗

— Abraham Cowley

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When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man. ↗

— Diogenes

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In politics nothing is contemptible. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#contemptible #nothing

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. ↗

— Mark Twain

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Hating skin color is contempt for God's divine creative imagination. Honoring it is appreciation for conscious, beautiful-love-inspired diversity. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#beauty #conciousness #contempt #create #creative

Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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