“ To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ Man is so much more sensitive to the contempt of others than to contempt for himself. ”
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche- Copy
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“ What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt? ”
- Khalil Gibran- Copy
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“ The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure from it. ”
- Arthur Koestler- Copy
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“ Oh, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful In the contempt and anger of his lip! - Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 1. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ A bigot delights in public ridicule, for he begins to think he is a martyr. ”
- Sydney Smith- Copy
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“ To ridicule philosophy is really to act the part of a philosopher. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
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“ Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle? ”
- James Branch Cabell- Copy
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“ Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear. ”
- Henry Fielding- Copy
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“ People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still. ”
- Milan Kundera- Copy
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“ Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule... as making the worse appear the better reason. ”
- Laertius Diogenes- Copy
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