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If American industry continues to sow contempt for the consumer, it will reap contempt from the consumer.
I have buckets of sympathy for the obese, often subject to cruelty, ridicule, denunciation, and contempt.
The particular article ought in my opinion to be treated with absolute contempt. It is too vile to touch.
As someone who has never been in a gossip magazine, I do not deserve the contempt of the term 'celebrity.'
That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go.
We must reject the politics of meanness and contempt that increasingly dominate our airwaves and Internet.
Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.
I think anyone who serves in public office should have a little bit of contempt for government in their heart.
Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.
Contempt for China on the part of the enemy is his weak point. Knowledge of this weak point is our strong point.
By 1782 [John Adams] had come to feel for [Benjamin] Franklin "no other sentiments than Contempt or Abhorrence."
America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.
We pride ourselves on our democracy, but when you see the way it actually works, I think it is worthy of contempt.
What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.
Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it?
To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them.
Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.
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.
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
The hatred and contempt for men, women and children that was manifested in the Shoah was a crime against God and against humanity.
The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.
A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.
In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.
There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.
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.
Musharraf has just gone against the constitution and displayed contempt of court and has shown that he has no respect for the rule of law.
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed.
Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.
The libertarian worship of individual freedom, and contempt for social convention, comes easiest to people who have never really had to grow up.
Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.
Which is ideology? Which not? You shall know them by their assertion of truth, their contempt for considered reflection, and their fear of debate.
All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, I'm an artist, man, I don't do that family stuff - has begun to seem really important.
The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt.
I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father.
The Elders had nothing but contempt for human emotion; they considered it their biggest weakness. Perenelle knew it was humankind's greatest strength.
Familiarity with nature never breeds contempt. The more one learns, the more one expects surprises, and the more one becomes aware of the inscrutable.
Just as people behave to me, so do I behave to them. When I see that a person despises me and treats me with contempt, I can be as proud as any peacock.
Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total, as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children in Nazareth.
I guess like any friendship, marriage, or whatever it is familiarity breeds more contempt, and more love. They're just more settled with each other now.
I think there's a contempt for care work and caregiving in this country that seeps into how we think about mothers, professional workers who are mothers.
There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.
There is a certain belief that so long as something is published in cyberspace there is no need to respect the laws of contempt or libel. This is mistaken.