contempt

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55ea93d	Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?	ass attitude contempt curmudgeon hilarious intellectual meatsacks mouthbreathers pompous pronouncements satire sheep	John Kennedy Toole
2b38ece	Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive that you ignorantly worship: in all things you appear to me too superstitious. Sir, your god, your great Bel, your fish-tailed Dagon, rises before me as a demon. You, and such as you, have raised him to a throne, put on him a crown, given him a sceptre. Behold how hideously he governs! See him busied at the work he likes best -- making marriages. He binds the young to the old, the strong to the imbecile. He stretches out the arm of Mezentius and fetters the dead to the living. In his realm there is hatred -- secret hatred: there is disgust -- unspoken disgust: there is treachery -- family treachery: there is vice -- deep, deadly, domestic vice. In his dominions, children grow unloving between parents who have never loved: infants are nursed on deception from their very birth: they are reared in an atmosphere corrupt with lies ... All that surrounds him hastens to decay: all declines and degenerates under his sceptre. god is a masked Death.	contempt death decay demons discord disgust disharmony disparity domestic-life expectations false-belief families family-relationships force hatred hypocrisy idolatry injustice lovelessness marriage married-life matrimony preconceptions scorn social-norms society unfreedom unhappiness vice women worldliness	Charlotte Brontë
a91d449	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 trade	Holly Black
7fd647b	Between Countess Nordston and Levin there had been established those relations, not infrequent in society, in which two persons, while ostensibly remaining on friendly terms, are contemptuous of each other to such a degree that they cannot even treat each other seriously and cannot even insult each one another.	contempt relationships	Leo Tolstoy
ea172d0	If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.	contempt mother over-indulgence upbringing	Anne Brontë
c1eaa56	"{ }	believers catholic catholic-church catholicism christendom church contempt coop credulity cruelty divines dreadful hell integrity lie luminous martyrs realization ritual sages shame submission ugly	H.G. Wells
89ecd73	It is considered a rather cheerful axiom that all Americans distrust politicians. (No one takes the further and less cheerful step of considering just what effect this mutual contempt has on either the public or the politicians, who have, indeed, very little to do with one another.)	americans contempt distrust politicians politics trust united-states usa	James Baldwin

Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?

ass attitude contempt curmudgeon hilarious intellectual meatsacks mouthbreathers pompous pronouncements satire sheep

John Kennedy Toole

2b38ece

Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive that you ignorantly worship: in all things you appear to me too superstitious. Sir, your god, your great Bel, your fish-tailed Dagon, rises before me as a demon. You, and such as you, have raised him to a throne, put on him a crown, given him a sceptre. Behold how hideously he governs! See him busied at the work he likes best -- making marriages. He binds the young to the old, the strong to the imbecile. He stretches out the arm of Mezentius and fetters the dead to the living. In his realm there is hatred -- secret hatred: there is disgust -- unspoken disgust: there is treachery -- family treachery: there is vice -- deep, deadly, domestic vice. In his dominions, children grow unloving between parents who have never loved: infants are nursed on deception from their very birth: they are reared in an atmosphere corrupt with lies ... All that surrounds him hastens to decay: all declines and degenerates under his sceptre. god is a masked Death.

contempt death decay demons discord disgust disharmony disparity domestic-life expectations false-belief families family-relationships force hatred hypocrisy idolatry injustice lovelessness marriage married-life matrimony preconceptions scorn social-norms society unfreedom unhappiness vice women worldliness

Charlotte Brontë

a91d449

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 trade

Holly Black

7fd647b

Between Countess Nordston and Levin there had been established those relations, not infrequent in society, in which two persons, while ostensibly remaining on friendly terms, are contemptuous of each other to such a degree that they cannot even treat each other seriously and cannot even insult each one another.

contempt relationships

Leo Tolstoy

ea172d0

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.

contempt mother over-indulgence upbringing

Anne Brontë

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believers catholic catholic-church catholicism christendom church contempt coop credulity cruelty divines dreadful hell integrity lie luminous martyrs realization ritual sages shame submission ugly

H.G. Wells

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It is considered a rather cheerful axiom that all Americans distrust politicians. (No one takes the further and less cheerful step of considering just what effect this mutual contempt has on either the public or the politicians, who have, indeed, very little to do with one another.)

americans contempt distrust politicians politics trust united-states usa

James Baldwin