A Quote by James Baldwin
There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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Accumulating love brings luck, accumulating hatred brings calamity.
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
He who lives according to the guidance of reason strives as much as possible to repay the hatred, anger, or contempt of others towards himself with love or generosity. ...hatred is increased by reciprocal hatred, and, on the other hand, can be extinguished by love, so that hatred passes into love.
The more cruel the wrong that men commit against an individual or a people, the deeper their hatred and contempt for their victim.
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
The philosophy which affects to teach us a contempt of money does not run very deep; for, indeed, it ought to be still more clear to the philosopher than it is to ordinary men, that there are few things in the world of greater importance.
Few things under heaven bring more benefit than the lessons learned from silence and the actions taken without striving.
Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.
Someone once quoted Shakespeare to the philosopher W. V. O. Quine: There
are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
To which Quine is said to have responded: Possibly, but my concern is that
there not be more things in my philosophy than are in heaven and earth.
Contempt is a dangerous emotion, luring us into believing that we understand more than we do. Contempt causes us to jeer rather than speak, to poke at rather than touch.
I don't see myself as being injured by a landmine or the Taliban; I was injured by ignorance and hatred. When people do these things, they want to create more hatred. Fight it with love and education.
The enemy is never more unnerving than when he's invisible.
There will be no people in heaven who want to be around their things more than Jesus.
Man is more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself.
Few things are more important to me than the values that we hold dear in this country, and so I believe that there are few things that could be more important to teach our students in the classroom.
Few things interest me more than the things people don't say.
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