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How contemptible! Of all things in the world inconstancy is my aversion. Let
Incivility is the extreme of pride; it is built on the contempt of mankind.
I'm awash in self-contempt!
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Great self-respect is as often manifested in forbearance as in resentment.
Respect is earned.
There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and a reverent heart.
Contempt is frequently regulated by fashion.
Hatred is settled anger.
Forgive me if your contempt from on high always brings out the worst in me.
Contempt and anger of his lip! A murderous guilt
Anger is a more noble emotion than indifference.
People who expect deference resent mere civility.
Conquer with forbearance
The excesses of insolence.
Feelings of contempt born of inchoate, unacknowledged fear - civilization's fear of nature, men's fear of women, power's fear of powerlessness.
Man's subliminal urge to destroy what he could neither subdue nor deify.
Men's Needs.
Question your answers, Truth has no anger
I don't respect your statement because of the anger that came with it
Anger isn't the opposite of love. Hate is, and the final form of hate is indifference.[17]
Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
A temperate anger has virtue in it.
I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea.
Poverty and contempt generally go hand-in-hand in this world.
When is the last time you got angry at someone treating you with respect?
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
Respect is earned, not given
Resentment-why, it is purification; it is a most stinging and painful consciousness!
Ignominy thirsts for respect.
Avoid contempt, both of others and of yourself: what seems bad to you in yourself is purified by the very fact that you have noticed it in yourself.
Disdain is only as intense as similarity.
None but the contemptible are apprehensive of contempt.
contempt there, as well. She will not allow even
Anger has become one of the trendiest emotions of all. In moderation it can be a righteous force for constructive change. But its hackneyed omnipresence means the vast majority of its outbreaks are trivial. The paucity of colorful obscenities is aggravated by an abundance of frivolous fury.
True, sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between authentic anger and bullshit and that's why the following exercise is designed to help you express your resentments with integrity, and not with demoralizing bullshit
Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.
The other side of reverence is loathing.
Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others
Anger should be your servant, not your master
Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.
Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
Hatred - The anger of the weak.
There it was again - the perverse refusal to acknowledge my hostility. She seemed to me like some magical lake in a fairy tale: nothing could disturb the mirror-calm of her surface. My snide comments and bitter jokes disappeared soundlessly into her depths, leaving not so much as a ripple.
Avoid anger; embrace kindness.
Respect is a thing earned and not demanded, Perrin Aybara.
Respect is not given, it is earned.
Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
Respect is both earned and lost.
indifference but detachment
Contempt for failure is our cardinal virtue.
Familiarity gives rise to contempt.
There are persons whom in my heart I despise, others I abhor. Yet I am not obliged to inform the one of my contempt, nor the other of my detestation. This kind of dissimulation ... is a necessary branch of wisdom, and so far from being immoral ... that it is a duty and a virtue.
Hatred is a settled anger.
Anger clouded judgement.
Don't get mad, get even,
Bitterness is captivity.
I believe we're going to find that respect and affection are essential to all relationships working and contempt destroys them.
It was not fair and therefore unworthy of my respect. It was as simple as that.
You cannot give out one frequency, that of disrespect, and expect respect to flow toward you. Neither can you hold on to your biases, prejudices, and negative thinking toward something, and expect that something positive will return to you.
They dislike, therefore, to hear of 'contempt' of themselves. So I will appeal to their pride.
But what is it that drives haters crazy with rage? Many times, it's being ignored. To a person with pride, being ignored is often worse than out-and-out hate; it's that much more of an insult, that you're not even worth noticing.
Respect is not a feeling. It is how we treat another person.
Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.
Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain.
pity very often - not always - comes with an unspoken and sometimes unrecognized element of contempt.
Here, brother, contempt is no use, even if he does despise Grushenka. He may despise her, but he still can't tear himself away from her.
Rudeness luxuriates in the absence of self-respect.
In the face of unjust criticism we can become bitter or better; upset or understanding; hostile or humble; furious or forgiving.
Hatred is inveterate anger.
He that searches for praise will often find contempt.
A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring.
Let this be one invariable rule of your conduct
never to show the least symptom of resentment, which you cannot, to a certain degree, gratify; but always to smile, where you cannot strike.
Contempt, thought Tyrion, the universal tongue.
11 OVERCOMING ANGER AND HATRED
Return animosity with virtue.
I am worn out with civility.
I was shocked at the anger toward me.
Anger is the common refuge of insignificance. People who feel their character to be slight, hope to give it weight by inflation: but the blown bladder at its fullest distention is still empty.
Anger that has no limit causes terror, and unseasonable kindness does away with respect. Be not so severe as to cause disgust, nor so lenient as to make people presume.
Rudeness makes me very angry.
Those who behave in ways that displease you are sending out their disharmony toward you because that is what they have to give away. Hating them is akin to hating moss for growing on a tree.
Respect depicts acceptance while disrespect is rejection.
Don't mask self-doubt with contempt.
Respect is earned not handed out
Anger - justifiable anger in the face of oppression and prejudice - should not be mistaken for hatred.
Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.
Reverence reduces hostility.
Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge.
We cannot overcome anger and hatred simply by suppressing them. We need to actively cultivate the antidotes: patience and tolerance.
Anger causes us often to condemn in one what we approve in another.
No one is the object of another man's contempt, unless he is first the object of his own.
Respectability offends my taste.
Respect is tendered with pleasure only where it is not exacted.
There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the heart to the highest agony of human hatred.
Not everyone knows how to be silent or to leave in good time. It happens that even people of good breeding fail to notice that their presence provokes in the weary or preoccupied host a feeling akin to hatred, and that this feeling is tensely concealed and covered up with lies.
With Malice Towards None
Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.