Pastoral Resources

Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.

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.

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.

One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to.

I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.

Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.

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.

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.

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.

The pollution they produce, market, sell, and show to billions around the world is at its core contemptuous of the country that gave them better lives than nearly 100 percent of everybody who's ever lived. And they pass that contempt along for everyone to see.

In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt.

Only the contemptible fear contempt.

Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it?

And there had to be a dagger thrust in the heart of the left to tell them that you are no longer gonna give five years for a Smith Act prosecution or one year for Contempt of Court, but we're gonna kill ya!