Inspirational Quotes

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Contempt Quotes

ContemptSelf-CriticismVanity Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher
AuthorityContemptLawLegislationObedience To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Women's Rights Activist
ContemptLeadershipSuperiority To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

Benjamin Disraeli

Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
ChildrenContemptFamiliarity Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

Mark Twain

American writer and humorist
ContemptExistenceHelplessnessUncertainty What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

Kahlil Gibran

Lebanese-American writer and poet
ContemptEmotionHeart vs MindJudgmentRelationship Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

Arthur Schopenhauer

German Philosopher