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Ignoring the differences between democracies governed by the rule of law and contemptible organizations that engage in terrorism at best discredits one’s intended argument and at worst reflects deep-seated prejudice. – Ilhan Omar	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This behavior is contemptible. – Wang Wenbin	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Being poor is not a crime. The actions of the NYPD in this video are appalling and contemptible. – Letitia James	Found on CNN 5 years ago
This is the lowest kind of demagoguery. Mr. Trump's comments are contemptible and un-American. They are a call for mob justice. – Eugene Fidell	Found on CNN 8 years ago
You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule. – William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books. – W. H. Auden	added by anonymous 10 years ago
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. – Edmund Burke	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a "but". – Henry Ward Beecher	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works... – J. R. R. Tolkien	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a but. – Henry Ward Beecher	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. – Edmund Burke	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. – Samuel Butler	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible. – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Ignoring the differences between democracies governed by the rule of law and contemptible organizations that engage in terrorism at best discredits one’s intended argument and at worst reflects deep-seated prejudice.

– Ilhan Omar

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This behavior is contemptible.

– Wang Wenbin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Being poor is not a crime. The actions of the NYPD in this video are appalling and contemptible.

– Letitia James

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This is the lowest kind of demagoguery. Mr. Trump's comments are contemptible and un-American. They are a call for mob justice.

– Eugene Fidell

Found on CNN
8 years ago

You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule.

– William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.

– W. H. Auden

added by anonymous
10 years ago

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

– Edmund Burke

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a "but".

– Henry Ward Beecher

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works...

– J. R. R. Tolkien

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a but.

– Henry Ward Beecher

added by anonymous
14 years ago

When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

– Edmund Burke

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

– Samuel Butler

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.

– Albert Einstein

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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