The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.
Quotes about condescend (5 Quotes)
I thought it was a reflection, not a whole reflection, because films never are. You know workers had English-speaking bosses who didn't condescend to speak their language. It still happens in Canada and no longer in Quebec. You can argue, as I have, that Quebec had the power to rectify that situation any time it damn well chose.
I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about.
Stately, kindly, lordly friend Condescend Here to sit by me.
'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.