Condescension Quotes

• We're understanding what Obama is. He is the great teacher. He is this guy that stands above everybody. There's some condescension in it, but he stands above everybody and says, 'Now, listen. You people have to stop blaming each other unreasonably. You have to get along here and I am going to show you the way.' It is a pretty brave role in many ways.

  

  Evan Thomas
  • Teacher
  • Role
  • Obama

• I thought I’d been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing Y.A.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Literature
  • Young
  • Adults

• The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.

  

  Bernard Crick
  • Praise
  • Free Men
  • Condescension

• Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupation of free men, and its existence is a test of freedom. The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.

  

  Bernard Crick
  • Freedom
  • Politics
  • Praise

• Take advantage of the gracious condescension of the elegant calf's kidney, multiply its metamorphoses: you can without giving it any offence, call it the chameleon of cuisine.

  

  Emmanuel des Essarts
  • Advantage
  • Chameleon
  • Kidney

• When I started out, there were three things that made film people look at me with condescension, I was young, I was black, and I was female. I have won a certain respect, but I think the film community still sees directing as a male job.

  

  Euzhan Palcy
  • Job
  • Community
  • Respect

• Sometimes concern is the foot someone jams in the door so you can’t close it against condescension, presumption, invasiveness, and, at times, outright abuse.

  

  Hanne Blank
  • Concern
  • Presumption
  • Condescension