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.

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

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...

I’ve seen a look in dogs’ eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

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

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.

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...

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

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

{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...

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