“The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Man is so much more sensitive to the contempt of others than to contempt for himself.”
“The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille”
Karl Marx
“Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.”
Eric Hoffer
“As the air to a bird or the sea to a fish, so is contempt to the contemptible.”
William Blake
“Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt”
Berthold Auerbach
