We say that word [bureaucracy] with such contempt. But it's that contempt that keeps this thing that we own and we pay for as something that's working against us.
We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there.
Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of.
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.
Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt for death which is only the fear of facing it; so that one may say that this constancy and contempt are to their mind what the bandage is to their eyes.
Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.
The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.
We must endure the contempt of others without reciprocating that contempt.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse predict an ailing marriage: Criticism, Defensiveness, Stonewalling and Contempt. The worst of these is contempt.
Contempt for the things people choose of their own free will is, at its heart, contempt for free will.
The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
Man is more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself.
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
If American industry continues to sow contempt for the consumer, it will reap contempt from the consumer.
Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.