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
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
“He speaks in a way that leaves no room for argument, on the edge of condescension and caring. It's a trick all… — Natalie C. Parker Copy Share Image
“Then turn your eyes back on me, and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension,… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“I don't purchase people with money, or hiss like a snake to attract their attention, all i do is to rest on… — Michael Bassey Johnson 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
We often hear that people mean well: that so many just don't how to interact with people with disabilities. They're unsure of… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
When you are young, it's deeply annoying to be told that certain things are a condition of your youth. There's almost always… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
As God adds his ‘Yes’ to your ‘Yes,’ as he confirms your will with his will, and as he allows you, and… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Right now religion has the romantic aura of the forbidden - Christ is cool. We need to bring it into the schools,… — Katha Pollitt 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
Good motives aside, white condescension does more damage than good. White condescension says to a black child, 'The rules used by other… — Larry Elder Copy Share Image
We're understanding what Obama is. He is the great teacher. He is this guy that stands above everybody. There's some condescension in… — Evan Thomas Copy Share Image
“Sadly, the natural world is not short of people who believe that rattling off Latin names incessantly makes them appear clever, whereas… — Tristan Gooley 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
“... 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
Take advantage of the gracious condescension of the elegant calf's kidney, multiply its metamorphoses: you can without giving it any offence, call… — Emmanuel des Essarts Copy Share Image
Tony Blair adopted the accent of the audience he was speaking to, which worked very well initially, but then voters began to… — Jacob Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
Obama's Nobel Peace Prize is an exquisite act of condescension from Norwegians, a dog biscuit and a pat on the head to… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Asking for help with shame says: You have the power over me. Asking with condescension says: I have the power over you.… — Amanda Palmer 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
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 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
Poets are regarded as handicapped writers whose work must be treated with a tender condescension, such as one accords the athletic achievements… — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image
What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only… — Jean Gebser Copy Share Image
Obama's style of argumentation is unlike any president I have ever met, and I've met a lot of them. And the condescension… — Paul Gigot Copy Share Image
“Well, that settles it,” Jason said with mock severity. “Such condescension tells me what I had long suspected.” “Which is . .… — Kate Noble Copy Share Image
The insolent civility of a proud man is, if possible, more shocking than his rudeness could be; because he shows you, by… — Lord Chesterfield 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
“Then turn your eyes back on me, and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension,… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
Almost Kien was tempted to believe in happiness, that contemptible life-goal of illiterates. If it came of itself, without being hunted for,… — Elias Canetti 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
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
What wonderful majesty! What stupendous condescension! O sublime humility! That the Lord of the whole universe, God and the Son of God,… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
Our Lord humbled without humiliation His lofty station which yet could not be humbled, and condescends to His servants, with a condescension… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
the true art of the gods is the comic. The comic is a condescension of the divine to the world of man;… — Isak Dinesen 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
That politeness which we put on, in order to keep the assuming and the presumptuous at a proper distance will generally succeed.… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I would not preach tolerance, which seems to me another name for condescension and presupposes faults in those to be tolerated ...… — Josephine Lawrence Copy Share Image
