Condescending Quotes - Page 2

• A conventional person can be restrained by the prejudices of its tradition. Convention has too many prejudicial restraints. But unconventional is good, because what happens is the heart is open, it's free, it's non-judgmental. It's not accommodating, but it's embracing, there is a difference. To accommodate means it's already condescending, you condescend to accommodate. To embrace is free, it's totally free.

  Maya Tiwari

  Heart, Mean, Differences

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I don't care who the student is, teachers should never be condescending. That should be the first rule in the teacher handbook.

  Colleen Hoover

  Teacher, Care, Firsts

  Colleen Hoover (2013). “Hopeless”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• You’re always working at the margin of what you don’t understand, that’s the only exhilarating place to be. To just illustrate what you already know is condescending, and a waste of your time.

  Emmet Gowin

  Waste, Always Working, Margins

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• I really think suicide has a branding problem because it has a tagline. It has a catch phrase, and I bet a lot of us know it. It sucks. It's really condescending. I bet we've heard it. Suicide - the coward's way out.

  Chris Gethard

  Suicide, Thinking, Problem

  "Manic And Depressed, 'I Didn't Like Who I Was,' Says Comic Chris Gethard". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. October 24, 2016.

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• I mean we [The Beatles] had to go through humiliation upon humiliation with the middle classes and showbiz and Lord Mayors and all that. They were so condescending and stupid. Everybody trying to use us. It was a special humiliation for me because I could never keep my mouth shut and I'd always have to be drunk or pilled to counteract this pressure. It was really hell .

  John Lennon

  Stupid, Mean, Class

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Face flushed, I shook my head and stared at my white-knuckled grip on the bed. Of all my pet peeves, condescending adults were probably at the top of the list.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  White, Pet, Bed

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.53, Scholastic Inc.

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• What's more condescending and corny than someone telling you how much more money they have than you and telling you basically, 'I don't care about poor people,' which is a large part of what you hear of corporate hip-hop on the radio.

  Talib Kweli

  People, Hip Hop, Care

  "Talib Kweli: Rap not 'talent-based game right now'" by Eliott C. McLaughlin, www.cnn.com. July 8, 2013.

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• Liberals are some of the most arrogant, condescending smart alecks, but they're just pure ignorant, and they fit the bill of people who have no love and no respect for the founding of this country.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Smart, People

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• Obama administration didn't have one person who had ever worked in business. Not one Obama cabinet member had ever seriously had a job, run a company, met a payroll in the American economy. And, as such, no way of understanding how business is done, from negotiations to any other aspect of it. In fact, people in Obama's cabinet were arrogant and condescending and looking down on those people as a bunch of shysters and a bunch of cheats and people that kill their customers and they're destroying the planet.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Jobs, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• You don't need great actors to do a 3D picture. All of this condescending stuff that they put out? "Oh, we will always need actors." Bullshit! They are able to take anybody and put some markers on them, and have them walk through an empty room. Then they paint in the background.

  William Friedkin

  Empty Rooms, Bullshit, Actors

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong. Our attitude towards our equals in age consists in a servile solemnity, overlying a considerable degree of indifference or disdain. Our attitude towards children consists in a condescending indulgence, overlying an unfathomable respect.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Children, Attitude, People

  "The Defendant". Book by G. K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• There are too many coy books full of talking animals, whimsical children, and condescending adults. (Some of the most famous animals in the world have talked, but they talked real talk and they weren't called silly names like Doody and Mooloo. They were called names like The Cheshire Cat and they asked sensible questions like "Did you say pig, or fig?")

  Katharine Sergeant Angell White

  Children, Real, Silly

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• Be easy and condescending in your deportment to your officers, but not too familiar, lest you subject yourself to a want of respect, which is necessary to support a proper command.

  George Washington

  Support, Want, Easy

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1776). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.81

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• If I'm writing a story and you're reading it, or vice versa, you took time out of your day to pick up my book. I think the one thing that will kill that relationship is if you feel me condescending to you in the process. And how does that happen? Well, it happens when I know more than you do, and when I know that I know more than you do, and I'm holding it back from you. So that I can then manipulate you at the end. You know, you think about like in a dating situation how terrible that would be, it's the same thing with a book.

  George Saunders

  Reading, Book, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think if some people know anything about African cinema it's something like the The Gods Must Be Crazy, which is such an awful, condescending movie that debases African participation, and anything I can do to shift that and draw attention to rich and widely varied films that come from there- because there's all kinds of filmmakers from Senegal, you have Mambety, and Haroun with Grigris.

  Elvis Mitchell

  Crazy, Thinking, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think that Hollywood is content with condescending to Black people, patronizing them, feeling sorry for us, and I think we're happy to take the pat on the head as a people and take whatever awards.

  Harry Lennix

  Sorry, Thinking, Awards

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If 'other people have experiences incorrectly' is annoying to you, think how unbearable it must be to have a condescending stranger tell you they hate the way you're experiencing your life at just the moment you've found something you want to remember.

  Randall Munroe

  Hate, Thinking, People

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• What a wonder is it, that two natures infinitely distant, should be more intimately united than anything in the world; and yet without any confusion! That the same person should have both a glory and a grief; an infinite joy in the Deity, and an inexpressible sorrow in the humanity! That a God upon a throne should be an infant in a cradle; the thundering Creator be a weeping babe and a suffering man, are such expressions of mighty power, as well as condescending love, that they astonish men upon earth, and angels in heaven.

  Thomas Goodwin

  Grief, Angel, Men

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• The Anglo-Saxon world saw India as an underdeveloped country. The land of snake charmers, the cows on the street, that "ex-colony-backward-nation" kind of viewpoint, very condescending. Europe on the other hand, saw India in a more romantic, mystical, spiritual way, as a place that's a fountain of wisdom.

  Kabir Bedi

  Spiritual, Country, Land

  Source: www.youthkiawaaz.com

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• Now in the States if you look at the TV, you see the advertisements, the TV programmes, the pop videos, and the movies, they're all the same style. I think it's very condescending to the audience to assume they only have a three second attention span and so they don't leave anything on the screen for any longer. I don't understand that.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Thinking, Style, Video

  Source: louderthanwar.com

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• Children cannot be fooled by empty praise and condescending encouragement. They may have to accept artificial bolstering of their self-esteem in lieu of something better, but what I call their accruing ego identity gains real strength only from wholehearted and consistent recognition of real accomplishment, that is, achievement that has meaning in their culture.

  Erik Erikson

  Encouragement, Children, Real

  Erik H. Erikson (1994). “Identity and the Life Cycle”, p.95, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If I'm writing a story and you're reading it, or vice versa, you took time out of your day to pick up my book. I think the one thing that will kill that relationship is if you feel me condescending to you in the process.

  George Saunders

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• No, Elenore's something else. You're beautiful. Especially when you look at me with that 'boy he's a condescending asshole' expression....Yea. Beautiful.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Beautiful, Boys, Expression

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• The absolute worst thing that you ever can do, in my opinion, in bringing science to the general public, is be condescending or judgmental. It is so opposite to the way science needs to be brought forth.

  Brian Greene

  Opposites, Needs, Way

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• I'm not saying this in a condescending kind of way, but it's quite simple: The making of America was a heroic thing. Australia has a much murkier, much more complex view of its history. It's just full of all these open wounds we don't really know what to do with.

  Nick Cave

  Simple, Views, America

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