Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
Louis D. Brandeis
No other profession is subject to the public contempt and derision that sometimes befalls lawyers. the bitter fruit of public incomprehension of the law itself and its dynamics.
Irving R. Kaufman
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Albert Einstein
By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction
William Osler
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man`s education is complete.
G.K. Chesterton
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation
Herbert Spencer
Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.
Mark Twain
Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
Louis D. Brandeis
We ought to give thanks for all fortune: it is is good, because it is good, if bad, because it works in us patience, humility and the contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country
C.S. Lewis
The divide of race has been America`s constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and contempt, cloaked in the pretense of religious or political conviction, are no different. They have nearly destroyed us in...
Bill Clinton
for those who would joyously march in rank and file, they have already earned my contempt, for they were given a large brain by accident when a spinal chord would have sufficed.
Albert Einstein
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.
Albert Einstein
(on Hollywood in the 1980s) "We live in a snake pit here...I hate it but I just don`t allow myself to face the fact that I hold it in contempt because it keeps on turning out to be the only place to go."
Orson Welles
On confessing his Communist ties before Congress: "I don`t think you have the foggiest notion of the contempt I have had for myself since the day I did that thing." (and years later:) "It`s the one thing in my life that I`m categorically ashamed of."
Sterling Hayden
My relationship with Hollywood isn`t love-hate, it`s love-contempt. I`ve never had to suffer any of the indignities that one associates with the studio system. I`ve always been independent in New York by sheer good luck. But I have an affection for Hollyw...
Woody Allen
On his films: "Bastards, most of them, conceived in contempt of life and spewn out onto screens across the world with noxious ballyhoo; saying nothing, contemptuous of the truth, sullen, and lecherous."
Sterling Hayden
With a contempt threat hanging over their head, the Forest Service did the best they could do, ... Who knew the judge was going to make new law and regulations from the bench?
Anthony Carrano
Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it.
Alexis Truchan
We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.
Alvina Tan
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one`s own despised and unwanted feelings.
Alice Duer Miller
