Wendell Phillips (1811–1884) American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer
1860s, Toussaint L'Ouverture (1861)
“In fact, contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.”
Source: 1950s, Portraits from Memory and Other Essays (1956), p. 198
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“Hatred is a thing of the heart, contempt a thing of the head.”
Arthur Schopenhauer book Parerga and Paralipomena
Vol. 2, Ch. 24, § 324
Variant translation: Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.
As translated by Eric F. J. Payne
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Counsels and Maxims
Context: Hatred is a thing of the heart, contempt a thing of the head. Hatred and contempt are decidedly antagonistic towards one another and mutually exclusive. A great deal of hatred, indeed, has no other source than a compelled respect for the superior qualities of some other person; conversely, if you were to consider hating every miserable wretch you met you would have your work cut out: it is much easier to despise them one and all. True, genuine contempt, which is the obverse of true, genuine pride, stays hidden away in secret and lets no one suspect its existence: for if you let a person you despise notice the fact, you thereby reveal a certain respect for him, inasmuch as you want him to know how low you rate him — which betrays not contempt but hatred, which excludes contempt and only affects it. Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another.
Margaret Mead (1901–1978) American anthropologist
As reported in "Impeachment?" by Claire Safran, in Redbook (April 1974)
1970s
Arthur Schopenhauer book Parerga and Paralipomena
"Psychological Observations"
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Studies in Pessimism
George Galloway (1954) British politician, broadcaster, and writer
David Usborne, " Hitchens vs Galloway: The big debate http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article312968.ece", The Independent, September 16, 2005 <br class="br">During a debate with Christopher Hitchens, September 14, 2005
Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794) French revolutionary lawyer and politician
Principles to Form the Basis of the Administration of the Republic (February 1794)
“Some people view the public domain with contempt.”
Lawrence Lessig book Free Culture
Free Culture (2004)
Context: Some people view the public domain with contempt. In their brief before the Supreme Court, the Nashville Songwriters Association wrote that the public domain is nothing more than "legal piracy." But it is not piracy when the law allows it; and in our constitutional system, our law requires it. Some may not like the Constitution's requirements, but that doesn't make the Constitution a pirate's charter.
As we've seen, our constitutional system requires limits on copyright as a way to assure that copyright holders do not too heavily influence the development and distribution of our culture. Yet, as Eric Eldred discovered, we have set up a system that assures that copyright terms will be repeatedly extended, and extended, and extended. We have created the perfect storm for the public domain. Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again.