A Quote by John G. Zimmerman

Incivility is the extreme of pride; it is built on the contempt of mankind.

John G. Zimmerman

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John G. Zimmerman
October 30, 1927 - August 3, 2002

Incivility is not a Vice of the Soul, but the effect of several Vices; of Vanity, Ignorance of Duty, Laziness, Stupidity, Distraction, Contempt of others, and Jealousy.

Jean de la Bruyere

In our proud love affair with ourselves we pour contempt, whether we know it or not, on the worth of God's glory. As our pride pours contempt upon God's glory, His righteousness obliges Him to pour wrath upon our pride.

John Piper

I'm accustomed to Internet forums where rudeness and incivility are the rule, where too many people seem to take pride in their insults.

Bryan Burrough

Im accustomed to Internet forums where rudeness and incivility are the rule, where too many people seem to take pride in their insults.

Bryan Burrough

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Benjamin Franklin

There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and a reverent heart.

James Martineau

Wrongs are often forgiven; but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.

Lord Chesterfield

You have to be an extremist to believe that you're gonna be the president of the United States and your name is Barack Hussein Obama! And he's using extreme methods, but his application is very smooth. Michelle Obama is extreme, her presence is extreme. And it's an extreme good. Extreme is not negative.

Mos Def

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

Henry IV of England

We pride ourselves on our democracy, but when you see the way it actually works, I think it is worthy of contempt.

Caroline Lucas

Pride in one's own race - and that does not imply contempt for other races - is ... a normal and healthy sentiment.

Adolf Hitler

O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind.

Juvenal

Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.

John Dewey

To me, it was shocking that a government of men could look with such extreme contempt on a movement that was asking nothing except such a simple little thing as the right to vote.

Alice Paul

For the world is founded and built up on death, and the reality of death is neither to be questioned nor feared. Death is a dark dream, but it is not a nightmare. It is mankind's lack of pity, mankind's fatal propensity for torture, that is the nightmare.

Mary Webb

Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.

C. S. Lewis

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