Contempt You Quotes:

Only you must have worthy foes hate, but not enemies worthy of contempt. You must be proud of your enemy.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Hate, Enemy, Contempt You

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

- Evelyn Waugh

source: Evelyn Waugh (2012). “A Little Order: Selected Journalism”, p.175, Penguin UK

topic: Family, Son, Parent, Contempt You, Love Your Family

Not caring how you look is but a brief step away from not caring what you do or how you treat people. And surely, if you treat yourself with contempt, you're going to have little thought, care or compassion for anyone else.

- Lynda Lee-Potter

topic: Fashion, Caring, Compassion, Contempt You

In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings.

- Ryszard Kapuscinski

topic: Order, Feelings, Needs, Contempt You

Religious believers of the world, you are free to continue to debate the simple, narrow question that divides you from atheists, but you have no right, in so doing, to treat the Humanists of the world with contempt. You owe them a deep debt of gratitude, for not only have they shed much light on a naturally dark world but they have very probably helped civilize your own specific religion.

- Steve Allen

source: Steve Allen (2001). “Vulgarians at the Gate: Trash TV and Raunch Radio : Raising the Standards of Popular Culture”

topic: Gratitude, Religious, Atheist, Dark World, Debt Of Gratitude

Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feeling of moral superiority while asking nothing in return.

- Jonathan Haidt

source: Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.60, Basic Books

topic: People, Giving, Feelings, Moral Superiority, Contempt You