Do you know how many people ask me why I didn't hold you in contempt after the last stunt you pulled in this courtroom?

There is so much hate among people, so much contempt inside people who'd like you to think they're moral, that they have to hire prizefighters to do their hating for them. And we do. We get into a ring and act out other people's hates.

Well it is a darn shame we have to have something bad happen to get people interested, but that's kind of what it takes. And if there's any benefit at all from disasters outside of our area, it would be that, that other people say well it could happen to me.

I feel that if we do not help people, you breed anger and contempt.

Politicians / power itself / are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Among well-bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagernes