If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are merely committing suicide and trying to make yourself feel better about it. That is the act of a coward. It is beneath contempt.
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
If American industry continues to sow contempt for the consumer, it will reap contempt from the consumer.
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.
Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.
Your cowardly self-delusions about “love” when you know as well as I do that there’s never been anything between us but contempt and distrust and a terrible sickly dependence on each other’s weakness- that’s why. That’s why I couldn’t stop laughing about the Inability to Love, and that’s why I can’t stand to let you touch me, and that’s why I’ll never again believe in anything you think, let alone anything you say
I'm awash in self-contempt!
Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies.
Familiarity gives rise to contempt.
I have nothing but contempt for anyone who can spell a word in only one way.
Hollywood works continually to keep its standard of contempt for the audience.
Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life.
Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.
He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word.
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
My attitudes aren't directed toward characters at all. I don't feel sympathetic toward some characters, unsympathetic toward others. I don't love some characters, feel contempt for others. They have attitudes; I don't.
Our world was brutal, immoral, smug and conventional. We had unbounded contempt for all those who did not sin as we sinned.
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country.
China has been there for 3,000 years, has contempt for the barbarians, is overcoming a century of domination, and simply moves on its own. It does not get intimidated when Uncle Sam shakes his fist. That's scary.