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“Can I help you?" he said, in a manner which indicated very clearly that not only did he not wish to help them, but also that he resented the implication that he ought to”
“Every exercise of power incorporates a faint, almost imperceptible, element of contempt for those over whom the power is exercised. One can only dominate another human soul if one knows, understand...”
“Familiarity breeds sentiment before contempt.”
“Deep down, people who deliberately distribute other peoples music and stuff feel contempt for professionals. And its not just culture these days lots of people are contemptuous of everything. With...”
“It contained a sad, but too common story of the hard-heartedness of the wealthy, and the misery endured by the children of the highborn. Blood is not water, it is said, but gold with them is dearer...”
“Loneliness, dejection, the contempt or pity of people around you--these are unpleasant feelings. But they are precisely the things that produce genuine Dark Ones.”
“Familiarity breeds contempt, for others at first, but then inwardly, contempt towards ourselves.”
“I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.”
“Haters are those, that never were given any chances, that blew their chances, or that never took the chance.”
“Setting fire to the roofs, getting away with the loot, suiting herself. She studied modern philosophy, read Sartre on the side, smoked Gitanes, and cultivated a look of bored contempt. But inwardly...”
“Oh, that's just Thud! That's easy!" yapped a voice.Both men turned to look at Horsefry, who had been made perky by sheer relief."I used to play it when I was a kid," he burbled. It's boring. The dw...”
“We may see the small Value God has for Riches, by the People he gives the”
“..What our contempt often hurls from us,We wish it our again; the present pleasure,By revolution lowering,does becomeThe opposite of itself..”
“A douchebag has an image to maintain. He is not real. He is the kind of guy who will change his last name into something cooler and more impressive.”
“Anxiety can make anybody act nasty, big or small. You will be tested for your strength, and if you are seen as too weak, you will sometimes be treated abusively, discarded and avoided. I'm not sayi...”
“A prince need take little account of conspiracies if the people are disposed in his favor.”
“all men carry murder in their hearts, yet even so, the poisoner is beneath contempt.”
“The way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain.”
“[A]nd you may know how little God thinks of money by observing on what bad and contemptible characters he often bestow”
“As a society, our decision to heap shame and contempt upon those who struggle and fail in a system designed to keep them locked up and locked out says far more about ourselves than it does about them.”
