Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

No matter how much hatred and contempt you have for what that man did in the '70s and '80s, it's about what happened in this case. It's about the law. Without the law we have nothing. It's what our country was founded on.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race