Quotes with counter-contempt

Quotes 41 till 60 of 73.

  • Lord Chesterfield Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Caroline Knapp Surely, it's one of terrorism's intended effects, to literally stun our morale, to blow up strength and will along with buildings, and the reaction is hard to counter.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Ben Elton Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
    Ben Elton
    British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director (1959 - )
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  • Boris Johnson The excitement is growing so much I think the Geiger counter of Olympo-mania is going to go zoink off the scale.
    On the forthcoming London Olympic Games. Daily Telegraph, 27 July 2012.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Bobby Seale The FBI's Counter-Intelligence Program would work hand-in-hand with police departments, literally planning attacks on Black Panther Party offices throughout the United States of America. They did this over a period of time.
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The invalid is a parasite on society. In a certain state it is indecent to go on living. To vegetate on in cowardly dependence on physicians and medicaments after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost ought to entail the profound contempt of society.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Carl Bernstein 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.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Carl Bernstein 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
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Carl Bernstein The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, misinformation, 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
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Salman Rushdie The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.
    (2005)
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • A. A. Milne The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course.
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Lester Bangs The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.
    Lester Bangs
    American music journalist, critic and author (1948 - 1982)
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  • Samuel Johnson The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Carol Gilligan The women's movement is taking a different form right now, and it is because it has been so effective and so successful that there's a huge counter movement to try to stop it, to try to divide women from one another, to try to almost foment divisiveness.
    Carol Gilligan
    American feminist, ethicist and psychologist (1936 - )
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  • Edith Hamilton Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
    Edith Hamilton
    American educator and author (1867 - 1963)
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  • James Baldwin There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Belle Boyd There are those who maintain that in this world women have no right to interfere in the affairs of state, in politics, in plots and counter-plots. Others that are who, more chivalrous, are willing to admit that women have as much right to act, think, and speak as men.
    Belle Boyd
    American Confederate spy (1844 - 1900)
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  • Lord Chesterfield There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Herbert Spencer There is one principle that can keep a man in everlasting ignorance. That is contempt prior to investigation.
    Herbert Spencer
    British Philosopher (1820 - 1903)
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