Contemptible Means Quotes

#1. Success achieved by the most contemptible means cannot but destroy the soul ... It helps to cover up the inner corruption and gradually dulls one's scruples, so that those who begin with some high ambition cannot, even if they would, create anything out of themselves.

Emma Goldman

#2. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that ' an unjust law is no law at all.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#3. The question then is, how much are you willing to give?" And I answered, "Anything." A breath later, Zane echoed my response with, "Everything.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

#4. I represent where them killers at 145th and Broadway you get your head cracked

Cam'ron

#5. Among the wealthy, compassionate men claim the richest wealth, For material wealth is possessed by even contemptible men. Find and follow the good path and be ruled by compassion. For if the various ways are examined, compassion will prove the means to liberation.

Thiruvalluvar

#6. The sight of a child ... will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons - longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs of those parts of the personality which have been blotted out of the total picture in favor of the adapted persona.

Carl Jung

#7. I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as for each man, mere longevity seems to me a contemptible ideal.

C.S. Lewis

#8. The letters are mixed up. U and I should be together.

Jodi Picoult

#9. Updating passwords and changing them all the time is something I'm involved in.

Christian Slater

#10. Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.

Victor Hugo

#11. The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.

Oliver Goldsmith

#12. I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

Elon Musk

#13. I still audition a lot and work really hard to get work. So I don't really walk around feeling like I've made it. My short term goals are really just to be creatively stimulated and to be excited about material I might be working on.

Olivia Thirlby

#14. There are just some things that you can't deny.

Zachary Cole Smith

#15. If you are unhappy with your life and the state of the world, the best place to start changing things is within yourself.

Bryant McGill

#16. No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written.

Alice Hoffman