Contemptuous Quotes
Disdain, authority, and double standards
These contemptuous quotes describe a long, uneasy relationship with authority, disdainful of blind obedience while still respecting the idea of better leadership done right.
Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
We're contemptuous of 'distracted' working mothers. We're contemptuous of 'selfish' rich mothers. We're contemptuous of mothers who have no choice but to work, but also of mothers who don't need to work and still fail to fulfill an impossible ideal...
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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...
I've had a contemptuous relationship with authority throughout my life. I found myself at odds with authority, and I'm disdainful of blind authority.
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A curious thing about this rarefied world is that bloggers are almost unfailingly contemptuous toward everyone except one another.
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.
People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
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Others point out a broader double standard, how society is often contemptuous of mothers no matter their choices, whether they work by need or by about anything else.
