As a society, our decision to heap shame and contempt upon those who struggle and fail in a system designed to keep them locked up and locked out says far more about ourselves than it does about them.

A prince need take little account of conspiracies if the people are disposed in his favor.

Oh, that’s just Thud! That’s easy!” yapped a voice.Both men turned to look at Horsefry, who had been made perky by sheer relief.”I used to play it when I was a kid,” he burbled. It’s boring. The dwarfs always win!”Gilt and Vetinari shared a look. It said: While I loathe you and every aspect of...

[A]nd you may know how little God thinks of money by observing on what bad and contemptible characters he often bestows it.”[Man and the Gospel (1865)]

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

Short men are happy, for they can pass easily through the door. Tall men are happy, for they can stand erect and pluck oranges with their hands. Again, short men are angry, for they cannot stand erect and pluck oranges with their hands. Again, tall men are angry, for they cannot pass easily through the...

Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?

Anxiety can make anybody act nasty, big or small. You will be tested for your strength, and if you are seen as too weak, you will sometimes be treated abusively, discarded and avoided. I’m not saying that this should happen. I’m simply describing human beings as they are.

Neuspeh u našoj sredini učini čoveka budalom. Osramoti ga. Ponizi, isprlja. Ideji se niko ne suprostavlja idejom, nego nipodaštavanjem i psovkom. Znanje se ismejava. Istina mrzi i prezire.

Do as I say” only breeds contempt from others.

Bethune was a communist and an atheist with a healthy contempt for his evangelical father.

Familiarity breed contempt.

Sarcasm is a manifestation of anger, and anger can make you the puppet of your opponents.

De fiecare dată c nd pronunţ uman, am în minte noţiunea de subuman.

It is unfortunate that when you want to make some people feel like human beings, they begin to take you as an animal.

It contained a sad, but too common story of the hard-heartedness of the wealthy, and the misery endured by the children of the highborn. Blood is not water, it is said, but gold with them is dearer far than the ties of nature; to keep and augment their possessions being the aim and end of...

A douchebag has an image to maintain. He is not real. He is the kind of guy who will change his last name into something cooler and more impressive.

She’d always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.

I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the extremities make it appear as though it once meant something. We grow from hot or cold, but lukewarm is the biggest insult.

Distance makes the heart grow fonder, and familiarity breeds contempt. According to this my soul mate should be in Thailand.

Ukitaka kutambulika usione aibu.

{Wells discussing his experiences with Christianity}I realised as if for the first time, the menace of these queer shaven men in lace and petticoats who had been intoning, responding, and going through ritual gestures at me. I realised something dreadful about them. They were thrusting an incredible and ugly lie upon the world and the...

Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life…

Demons would often try to make me feel some negative emotion, like hatred or contempt. Because the only way I could become vulnerable to them, is if I indulged in some negative emotion, in their presence. In the realm of hatred and anger, and other negative emotions, demons are the masters.

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

Remembering that only a few years ago men, women, and even children, were imprisoned, tortured and burned, for having expressed in an exceedingly mild and gentle way, the ideas entertained by me, I congratulate myself that calumny is now the pulpit’s last resort. The old instruments of torture are kept only to gratify curiosity; the...

if admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem.

Loneliness, dejection, the contempt or pity of people around you–these are unpleasant feelings. But they are precisely the things that produce genuine Dark Ones.

I’ve spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.

Its crazy when people of high moral standards, feel its okay for an intimate friend to insult them in a jovial way, forgeting that even casual friends can do just the same in a jovial way.

I feel nothing but contempt. They pay themselves like they are rock stars.

Draskovic’s ouster is a sign of complete contempt by President Milosevic for those who speak the truth.

Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive that you ignorantly worship: in all things you appear to me too superstitious. Sir, your god, your great Bel, your fish-tailed Dagon, rises before me as a demon. You, and such as you, have raised...

At first, they’ll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they’ll dislike you.

The way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.

There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear

We may see the small Value God has for Riches, by the People he gives them to.”[Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1727]

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.

Haters are those, that never were given any chances, that blew their chances, or that never took the chance.

a word of contempt often in his mouth.

Whoever imagines himself a favorite with God holds others in contempt

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.

We drove on in silence, Dad shaking his head in disgust every few minutes. I stared at him, wondering how it was we got to this place. How the same man who held his infant daughter and kissed her tiny face could one day be so determined to shut her out of his life, out...

What people instinctively regard as cool is real power – consistency. Pathetic is not cool. Being locked in a tragedy, but not knowing it. That’s lameness.

I detest these underdone men, he thought coldly. Boiled looking! Ought to be shoved back in the oven; just one more minute would do it.

The extreme right wing of the Republican Party has shown nothing but contempt for democracy,

I’m not at all contemptuous of comforts, but they have their place and it is not first.

Never mind. But think up a different filling next time. And not cheese and tomato.” He shook his head and made up the roll.

Beyond doubt it would speedily verify the proverb that a nation must ravage itself before foreigners can ravage it, a man must despise himself before others can despise him.

It has always been a mystery to me how Adam, Eve, and the serpent were taught the same language. Where did they get it? We know now, that it requires a great number of years to form a language; that it is of exceedingly slow growth. We also know that by language, man conveys to...