Condescension Quote by E. P. Thompson Download Open image “We must not look at the past with the enormous condescension of posterity.” — E. P. Thompson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Condescension Condescension Posterity Enormous Enormous Condescension History Looks Past Past Enormous Posterity Time
We make a mistake to condescend to the past as if it were preparatory to our own time. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
It isn't the past which holds us back, it's the future; and how we undermine it, today. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“History is not the past – it is the method we have evolved of organising our ignorance of the past” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Our past is not the thing that matters so much in this world as what we intend to do with the future. — Shoghi Effendi Copy Share Image
We cannot keep on carrying burdens of the past and keep ruining our future. — Shehbaz Sharif Copy Share Image
We must see to it that enthusiasm for the future does not give rise to contempt for the past. — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
If we don't respect the past, we'll find it harder to build a future. — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are… — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
This going into Europe will not turn out to be the thrilling mutual exchange supposed. It is more like nine middle-aged couples with failing… — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it… — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations… — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
I do not see class as a 'structure', nor even as a 'category', but as something which in fact happens (and can be shown… — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very… — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not. — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a society that is overdue for… — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
There is not a thought that is being thought in the West or the East that is not active in some Indian mind — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
There are no European voices at Geneva, there are no European voices at START. — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I… — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
...In this world I cannot see the Most High Son of God with my own eyes, except for His Most Holy Body and Blood. — Francis of Assisi 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 his manner,… — Lord Chesterfield 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 ethnic groups… — Larry Elder Copy Share Image
Lisp is still #1 for key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension. — Verity Stob 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 some condescension… — Rumaan Alam 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; it is… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
But the severe rules of discipline which the prudence of the bishops had instituted were relaxed by the same prudence in favour of an… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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I would not preach tolerance, which seems to me another name for condescension and presupposes faults in those to be tolerated ... Nor do… — Josephine Lawrence 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 approves of,… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“A number of years ago, when I was a freshly-appointed instructor, I met, for the first time, a certain eminent historian of science. At… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
