He detested them for forcing helplessness upon him.

As the air to a bird or the sea to a fish, so is contempt to the contemptible.

We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

Be aware that the most detested person in the presence of God, is the one who accepts an Imam as a leader, but doesn't follow him in action.

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves… is what I call hell.

it is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well and look up to those who make no concessions.

Feelings of contempt born of inchoate, unacknowledged fear - civilization's fear of nature, men's fear of women, power's fear of powerlessness.
Man's subliminal urge to destroy what he could neither subdue nor deify.
Men's Needs.

And everything that he saw before him He despised or hated.

His was the scorn which thinks it not worth the while to be scornful. Those he most scorned, never knew it.

He preferred to remain in Chalkdene where he was well known and universally disrespected. Permanent residents employed him occasionally for work that did not demand intelligence, honesty or personal cleanliness.

and, ‘he who despises all, displeases all,’ as the Book says.

Wrongfully to be contemptuous of other human beings is inviting mental unhealth for oneself.

Contempt

The contempt I feel for others — for myself different, less internal than guilt.

It’s not that I think (or have ever thought) I was bad — through and through. I think I’m unattractive, unloveable, because I’m incomplete. It’s not what I am that’s wrong, it’s that I’m not more (responsive, alive, generous, considerate, original, sensitive, brave etc.).

My profoundest experience is of indifference, rather than censure.