Quotes about condescending (15 Quotes)


    They smell, they snarl and they scratch they have a singular aptitude for shredding rugs, drapes and upholstery they're sneaky, selfish and not at all smart they are disloyal, condescending and totally useless in any rodent free environment.


    Well, this kind of condescending attitude does not go over well with the Senate, ... We have the responsibility to determine how best to do it. Now they've done it on their side. Now it's up to the Senate to decide how to do it.

    I cannot feel good about being a woman unless you feel bad about being a man. I cannot be proud of being black unless you are ashamed of being white. I cannot respect myself for being gay unless you are embarrassed that you are straight. Tolerance has been put by the boards it is a stale and bitter thing and we will have none of it. Equality, likewise is condescending at best and in truth intended to demean. If I am to achieve the inner harmony and self-respect that is my due, it will not suffice for you and I to be equals. No Nothing less than superiority will make me happy. And to ensure that I make my point, I shall commend your libraries to the flames, rewrite your histories, purge your dictionaries, and arm the thought police with power to enforce political correctness in all speech and apprehension.




    For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk . . . What it does mean is to be taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.


    I've never really understood that. It's a funny thing; people sometimes accuse us of condescending to our characters somehow-that to me is kind of inexplicable.


    Tragedy is the greatest art form of all. It gives us the courage to continue with our life by exposing us to the pain of life. It is unsentimental, it takes us seriously as human beings, it is not condescending. Paradoxically, by seeing pain we are made greater, it becomes a need.


    Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing advertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting.


    The most obvious and condescending tell-tale sign that manipulation is taking place is that no one takes responsibility for the actions of the administration, its always some other department who is to blame and never the people who have authority, its always some nameless foot-soldiers, a few bad apples, when we all know that such excuses dont hold water, we know who gave the order for soldiers to engage in the abhorrent techniques of torture, we know who told subordinates in the corporation(s) to fudge the numbers and be creative, we know full well who makes these decisions. President Truman said, The buck stops here, now the buck effectively floats over many people never stopping anywhere, so theres no one to blame.



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