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• Charity isn't about pity, it is about love.

  Mother Teresa

  Helping Others, Charity, Giving Help

  Mother Teresa (1995). “A Simple Path-Open Market”

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• There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them nostalgically, with a patronizing wonder at the naivete of the youth who dreamed them.

  Glen Cook

  Dream, Dust, Once Upon A Time

  Glen Cook (2007). “Chronicles of the Black Company”, p.457, Macmillan

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• My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Freedom, Opportunity

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• Alan Rickman, who was mentored me a lot. He was very keen to offer his opinions on stuff. Not in a pretentious way. Not in a patronizing way.

  Matthew Lewis

  Opinion, Pretentious

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Religion poses a danger of creating division or intolerance between groups of people. However, the gospel of Jesus lead us to three things: humble service, reconciling behavior that is neither patronizing nor self-righteous, and a love toward people who hold different beliefs than we do.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Humble, Self

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• It's this patronizing thing that people have about if you're against the war everyone's lumped together. You know, the soldiers are not scholars, they're not war experts.

  Richard Belzer

  War, People, Soldier

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The salesman thanks the customer for patronizing his shop and asks him to come again. But the socialists say: Be grateful to Hitler, render thanks to Stalin; be nice and submissive, then the great man will be kind to you later too.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Nice, Grateful, Men

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.

  Alex Kingston

  Cynicism, Californians, British

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Ordinary' is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things.

  Studs Terkel

  Air, People, Ordinary

  Studs Terkel, Sydney Lewis (2010). “Touch and Go: A Memoir (Large Print 16pt)”, p.244, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In particular in how [Barack Obama] has directed what you could describe as patronizing remarks to African-American communities.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Community, African American, Barack

  Source: www.npr.org

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• With its shrewd analysis and its knowledgeable reflections on the state of the arts, as well as a rich array of anecdotes and quotations about patronage, Patronizing the Arts will appeal to a broad audience.

  Jonathan Culler

  Art, Reflection, Anecdotes

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• A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic - on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg - or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool; you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us.

  C. S. Lewis

  Teacher, Jesus, Fall

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Republicans should save the clip of Jonathan Gruber and run it over and over again in the run-up to the 2016 election. This attitude that government is better at making decisions than you are because you are too stupid to know what is good for you is a hallmark of patronizing, arrogant and condescending liberalism.

  Cal Thomas

  Running, Attitude, Stupid

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• Rupert Murdoch gave up his Australian citizenship in order to buy television stations in the United States, which is symptomatic of the way Murdoch operates. Everything is for sale, including his birthright. The Mirror is not read by soccer hooligans. It's read by ordinary people of this country. That comment is simply patronizing. But to be criticized by the Moonies and Murdoch in one breath is really just a fine moment for me.

  John Pilger

  Soccer, Country, Order

  Source: progressive.org

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• How old are you?” she asked. My answer was automatic and ingrained. “Seventeen.” “And how long have you been seventeen?” I tried not to smile at the patronizing tone. “A while,” I admitted. “Okay,” she said, abruptly enthusiastic. She smiled up at me.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Long, Answers, Tone

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• I used LiveJournal frequently, almost daily, since ~age 13 until ~18. I kept a personal diary there. I also participated in various "LiveJournal communities". At the risk of sounding patronizing or something, I see LiveJournal and now Tumblr as wonderful because they give young girls ways to interact with eachother and learn and talk about new interests, ideas etc as well as support eachother emotionally.

  Marie Calloway

  Girl, Ideas, Giving

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's a sort of patronizing idea that literature for children has to feature role models of exemplary behavior. I think not only is that bogus, but it leads to really boring books.

  Mac Barnett

  Children, Book, Thinking

  "Mac Barnett & Jory John Talk with Roger". Interview with Roger Sutton, www.hbook.com. February 3, 2015.

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• It so happened that Lucy, who found daily life rather chaotic, entered a more solid world when she opened the piano. She was then no longer either deferential or patronizing; no longer either a rebel or a slave.

  E. M. Forster

  Piano, Rebel, World

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.373, Delphi Classics

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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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• I think one of the greatest losses to humanity was the domination of women. I think every religious system has found ways to be kind to them in a kind of subordinate way. Very patronizing, very colonial. But if you start looking at the fabric of society, even religious systems, they would fall apart if it wasn't for the embedded ability of the women who are involved.

  William P. Young

  Religious, Women, Fall

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• When someone like Kurt Cobain or Jack White comes out, they didn't go, "He sounds just like Muddy Waters," did they? They just said, "He's great, he sounds like him." When women come out and men write about them, they tend to write about them in a way that other men can understand, which sometimes can seem a bit patronizing.

  Shingai Shoniwa

  Writing, Men, White

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• In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever saw (yes, thank you, I am familiar with Macaulay's patronizing prattle about "The Pilgrim's Progress") etc.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Reading, Progress, Saws

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• Segregation, as even the segregationists know in their hearts, is morally wrong and sinful. If it weren't, the white South would not be haunted as it is by a deep sense of guilt for what it has done to the Negro - guilt for patronizing him, degrading him, brutalizing him, depersonalizing him, thingifying him; guilt for lying to itself. This is the source of the schizophrenia that the South will suffer until it goes through its crisis of conscience.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Lying, Heart, White

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• About California... "I thought it was an appalling place. Then I went through a period of being amused by it. Now it's sort of both. Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.

  Alex Kingston

  California, Alex, Amusement

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Patronizing the Arts is a brilliantly nuanced assessment of why universities must become art patrons. Learning from the twentieth-century university's embrace of Big Science, Garber argues that twenty-first-century universities must rigorously devote their attention to Big Art. Provocative, witty, and layered, Patronizing the Arts cogently demonstrates the advantages for both art and the university in this new and radical alliance.

  Peggy Phelan

  Witty, Art, Assessment

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