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I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk. -- Winston Churchill
America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure. -- Toby Young
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. -- Bertrand Russell
Earth to Democrats: Displaying contempt for the American people when you are being paid by those people to serve their interests is generally not a good political move. -- Monica Crowley
The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. -- Carl Bernstein
Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. -- Louis D. Brandeis
I think throughout the 20th century, for some reason, serious writers increasingly had contempt for the average reader. You can really see this in the letters of such people as Joyce and Virginia Woolf. -- Michel Faber
If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south. -- Martin Cruz Smith
I hate going to L.A. and dealing with the contempt people have for television and television actors. It's unbelievable the kind of attitude people take toward what is the most exciting medium we've got right now. -- Michael Moriarty
The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage. -- Carl Bernstein
The people whose necks hurt when I write about the Middle East tend to live in Brooklyn or Boca Raton: the kind of Zionist who pays another man to live in Israel for him. I have nothing but contempt for such people. -- Tony Judt
A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope. -- Christopher Hitchens
I want to remind people that the Nazis weren't able to take the Jews to the crematoriums immediately. The German people wouldn't have allowed for it. Instead, the Nazis had to change public opinion. They marginalized the Jewish people, disparaged them, and made them objects of contempt. -- Robert Jeffress
Some people see Black Friday as a much-needed break for their wallet. I see it as retail outlets showing the customers the full weight of their contempt. The frenzy to buy cheap crap from China, the human downgrade of people fighting with each other over items they can probably live without, to me, is an insult. -- Henry Rollins
Contempt for the things people choose of their own free will is, at its heart, contempt for free will. -- James Lileks
The more cruel the wrong that men commit against an individual or a people, the deeper their hatred and contempt for their victim. -- Albert Einstein
I do not look on self-indulgent, sensual people as worthy of my hatred; I simply look upon them with contempt for their poorness of character. -- Elizabeth Gaskell
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. -- Gore Vidal
Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have for other people. -- Diane Johnson
Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor. -- C. S. Lewis
Our political system is now run by the Big People for their own interests. If they ever deign to notice the Little People, it is with disdain and contempt. -- John Derbyshire

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