Indirect Contempt

Famous quotes containing the words indirect and/or contempt:

“Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)

“Man is more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)