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Condescension Quotes

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.

Scott Adams
Technology, Done, Condescension And

There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.

John Steinbeck
Condescension And, Ugly, Condescension
John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.144, Penguin

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

Bernard Crick
Men, Condescension And, Praise
Bernard Crick (1993). “In Defense of Politics”, p.140, University of Chicago Press

We certainly would be happy for more help, but not at the price of condescension and arrogance. If the Europeans believe they can afford to be less committed in Somalia, please - we can deal with it ourselves.

Yoweri Museveni
Believe, Arrogance, Condescension And
Source: www.spiegel.de

All Nigerians must learn from Christ and be determined to imbibe the lesson of divine condescension.

Peter Akinola
Lessons, Condescension And, Determined

What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.

Jean Gebser
Condescension And, Facts, Sentimental
Jean Gebser (1985). “The Ever-Present Origin”

Lisp is still #1 for key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension.

Verity Stob
Keys, Technique, Condescension And

Almost Kien was tempted to believe in happiness, that contemptible life-goal of illiterates. If it came of itself, without being hunted for, if you did not hold it fast by force and treated it with a certain condescension, it was permissible to endure its presence for a few days

Elias Canetti
Believe, Goal, Condescension And
Elias Canetti, Cicely Veronica Wedgwood (1947). “The tower of Babel”

Eucharistic worship is not so much worship of the inaccessible transcendence as worship of the divine condescension, and it is also the merciful and redeeming transformation of the world in the human heart

Pope John Paul II
Heart, World, Condescension And
Pope John Paul II (1994). “Letters to My Brother Priests”, Midwest Theological Forum

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