Every empire suffers from hubris, arrogance and condescension, and therefore a moral blindness. That's true of the American empire, it was true… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Wallace's sales agent, back in London, heard mutterings from some naturalists that young Mr. Wallace ought to quit theorizing and stick to… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
One who strictly prosecutes the misdemeanors of others will find not condescension towards his own. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Perhaps there are somewhere in the infinite universe beings whose minds outrank our minds to the same extent as our minds surpass… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
His great act of condescension in becoming man and His willingness to be completely humiliated in the death on the cross is… — John F Walvoord Copy Share Image
Liberals think their campaign against Wal-Mart is a way of introducing the subject of class into America's political argument, and they are… — George Will Copy Share Image
“...when we condescend, when we act consistently with a sense of the character of people in general which demeans them, we impoverish… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
We certainly would be happy for more help, but not at the price of condescension and arrogance. If the Europeans believe they… — Yoweri Museveni Copy Share Image
Eucharistic worship is not so much worship of the inaccessible transcendence as worship of the divine condescension, and it is also the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“... you saw how he was more than happy to serve Amarantha to remain unscathed.' ... Rhys let out a dark laugh.… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
As it is the nature of a kite to devour little birds, so it is the nature of some minds to insult… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Of all insults, the temporary condescension of a master to a slave is the most outrageous and galling. That potentate who most… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I believe in human liberty as I believe in the wine of life. There is no salvation for men in the pitiful… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
There is a condescension on the part of the infinite to the mind of man. That is what looks like God. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It means eating your words, this thing of refusing to be a fence-sitter, but I'd rather eat my words than get calluses… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence. In the writing of… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Most of them have, of course, an agenda; mostly born-again Christians looking to save my soul. I suppose the assumption is made… — Eric Rudolph Copy Share Image
We must win the common people in every corner. This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open,… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
If your church conveys that spirit of condescension or judgment, it's likely not a place where grace is on tap. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Because Jesus Christ has prepared Himself from the foundations of the world we can trust Him as one uniquely qualified through the… — David Wright Copy Share Image
There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
That is why, as one who values the U.S. - Israel relationship, and loves Israel, I was near tears throughout the Prime… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
There are days when the great are near us, when there is no frown on their brow, no condescension even; when they… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
