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There are many who say to the Lord, I give myself wholly to Thee, without any reserve, but there are few who embrace the practice of this abandonment, which consists in receiving with a certain indifference every sort of event, as it happens in conformity with Divine Providence, as well afflictions as consolations, contempt and reproaches as honor and glory. (Contempt Quotes)
The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one’s own ends, or of no account whatever. (Contempt Quotes)
We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country. (Contempt Quotes)
For 200 years, the dominant powers have also been the colonial powers: the European countries, the U.S. and Japan. They have never been required to pay their dues for what they did to those whom they possessed and treated with contempt. (Contempt Quotes)
Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict - which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt. (Contempt Quotes)
Comedy is defiance. It’s a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it’s the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale. (Contempt Quotes)
Familiarity breeds contempt, but without a little familiarity it’s impossible to breed anything. (Contempt Quotes)
I guess like any friendship, marriage, or whatever it is familiarity breeds more contempt, and more love. They’re just more settled with each other now. (Contempt Quotes)
All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, I’m an artist, man, I don’t do that family stuff - has begun to seem really important. (Contempt Quotes)
The kind of support the down-and-out need is the kind we have always refused them, the kind that would mean engaging with them not as objects of contempt, but as fellow human beings. (Contempt Quotes)
The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit. All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual’s sensibilities in relation not only to one’s fellow humans everywhere, but to all things whatsoever. (Contempt Quotes)
My worst boss was a departmental chair who never learned to appreciate new developments in the field. He had contempt for students and younger researchers, and he saw the job of running the department as a nuisance. (Contempt Quotes)
Isn’t it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it? (Contempt Quotes)
The irony of life emerges when two categories of men give advices regarding contempt for wordly goods. One, the rich, who do not know at first hand, what poverty is and another, the poor, who never know by personal experience what luxury is. (Contempt Quotes)
Hurt people hurt people. That’s how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion, cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of the future. (Contempt Quotes)
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse predict an ailing marriage: Criticism, Defensiveness, Stonewalling and Contempt. The worst of these is contempt. (Contempt Quotes)
The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible. (Contempt Quotes)
Setting fire to the roofs, getting away with the loot, suiting herself. She studied modern philosophy, read Sartre on the side, smoked Gitanes, and cultivated a look of bored contempt. But inwardly, she was seething with unfocused excitement, and looking for someone to worship. (Contempt Quotes)
Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving; and procures contempt Instead of gratitude. (Contempt Quotes)
Our security depends on having good relationships with our allies. Donald Trump mainly shows contempt for them. (Contempt Quotes)
Great conquests trouble, where contempt may please -- the one yields glory, and the other ease (Contempt Quotes)
Do not have your child’s hair cut by a real hairdresser in a real hairdressing salon. He is, at this point, far too short to be exposed to contempt. (Contempt Quotes)
I don’t have any contempt for the men who have to have jobs and have to commute and have to pay the mortgage and have to get their kids an education. To me, that’s the backbone of America, to coin a phrase. (Contempt Quotes)
Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol. (Contempt Quotes)