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Stella Young

We are a society that treats people with disabilities with condescension and pity, not dignity and respect.

– Stella Young

Sherman Alexie

I thought I’d been condescended to as an Indian – that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature.

– Sherman Alexie

Sayed Kashua

There’s a lot of hypocrisy and condescension in Israel’s institutionalized support for Mubarak’s tyrannical rule, in its backing of a corrupt leader who established a brutal secret police state to suppress his citizens and keep their mouths shut.

– Sayed Kashua

Rumaan Alam

When you are young, it’s deeply annoying to be told that certain things are a condition of your youth. There’s almost always some condescension in the proposition that your reality, your hopes, your frustrations, are just a condition of your age, that what feels unique to you is a very common thing after all.

– Rumaan Alam

Phillips Brooks

Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.

– Phillips Brooks

Peter Shaffer

There used to be a certain condescension to Mozart. His music was regarded as pleasant. He was a porcelain figure playing a porcelain harpsichord.

– Peter Shaffer

Paul Romer

The thing that was bad about colonialism, and the thing which is residually bad in some of our aid programs, is that it involved elements of coercion and condescension.

– Paul Romer

Nancy Kress

Words change over time. ‘Condescending,’ for instance, was once a good thing to be. It meant that a person was willing to interact politely with people of lower social ranks. In Jane Austen’s world, a lady praised for her condescension was receiving a sincere compliment.

– Nancy Kress

Michael Ignatieff

I may have come into politics with an unacknowledged condescension toward the game and the people who played it, but I left with more respect for politicians than when I went in. The worst of them – the careerists and predators – you find in all professions. The best of them were a credit to democracy.

– Michael Ignatieff

Jacob Rees-Mogg

Tony Blair adopted the accent of the audience he was speaking to, which worked very well initially, but then voters began to perceive him as phoney. The ‘man of the people’ act is the height of condescension.

– Jacob Rees-Mogg

Heather Mac Donald

It is not the case that I can predict your views knowing that you are a white male. I cannot predict your views if you are a black female, and it is height of both arrogance and condescension to think that somebody can be type casted on the base of.

– Heather Mac Donald

Glenn Kelman

What employing thousands of people in the middle of the country has taught me is how good and hard-working Americans in all cities are, and how much most of the country resents our wealthiest cities’ sense of entitlement and condescension.

– Glenn Kelman

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