{"quotes":[{"text":"...When we condescend, when we act consistently with a sense of the character of people in general which demeans them, we impoverish them AND ourselves, and preclude our having a part in the creation of the highest wealth, the testimony to the mysterious beauty of life we all value in psalms and tragedies and epics and meditations, in short stories and novels.","author":"Marilynne Robinson","tags":["beauty","condescension"],"id":10233,"author_id":"Marilynne+Robinson"},{"text":"...The Men Who Knew came out of the woodwork.","author":"Rebecca Solnit","tags":["condescension","feminism","mansplaining","men"],"id":65970,"author_id":"Rebecca+Solnit"},{"text":"We, who were reduced to eating on the sidewalk , were suddenly elevated in status by this man's misery. We were the aristocrats and he the beggar. It flattered us. We were superbly above him and the comedy gave us a delusion of high self-respect. In a while, the magnanimity of the rich would complete the picture. We would feed our scraps to the poor.","author":"John Howard Griffin","tags":["condescension","poverty","social-classes","wealth"],"id":88450,"author_id":"John+Howard+Griffin"},{"text":"My friend is my friend, even if he wears rag, even if he wasn't born with a silver spoon, even if nobody wants to be his friend, I will hurt his critics by remaining his friend.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["amicable","boo","bosom-friend","compassion","compassionate","condescension","critic","critics","faithfulness","friend","friendship","friendships","love","materialism","michael-bassey-johnson","my-friend","ostracize","rag","silver-spoon","sympathy","ties","union"],"id":128362,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"[A man], who is in prosperity, while he sees that others have to contend with great wretchedness and that he could help them, thinks: What concern is it of mine? Let everyone be as happy as Heaven pleases, or as he can make himself; I will take nothing from him nor even envy him, only I do not wish to contribute anything to his welfare or to his assistance in distress! Now no doubt, if such a mode of thinking were a universal law, the human race might very well subsist, and doubtless even better than in a state in which everyone talks of sympathy and good-will, or even takes care occasionally to put it into practice, but, on the other side, also cheats when he can, betrays the rights of men, or otherwise violates them. But although it is possible that a universal law of nature might exist in accordance with that maxim, it is impossible to will that such a principle should have the universal validity of a law of nature. For a will which resolved this would contradict itself, inasmuch as many cases might occur in which one would have need of the love and sympathy of others, and in which, by such a law of nature, sprung from his own will, he would deprive himself of all hope of the aid he desires.","author":"Immanuel Kant","tags":["alms","condescension","donations","impoverished","poor","rich"],"id":186007,"author_id":"Immanuel+Kant"},{"text":"Then turn your eyes back on me,and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension, and are incapable of understanding adult subjects. We haven'tremained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time.","author":"V.C. Andrews","tags":["abandoned","abandonement","adult-subjects","away","children","condescending","condescension","experience","eyes","good-time","idleness","incapable","kids","philosophy","subjects","thumbs","understand","understanding","wisdom","youth"],"id":234377,"author_id":"V.C.+Andrews"},{"text":"The intellect, like all cultural values, has created an aristocracy based on the possession of rational culture and independent of all personal ethical qualities of man. The aristocracy of intellect is hence an unbrotherly aristocracy.","author":"Max Weber","tags":["condescension","knowledge","unwise"],"id":250664,"author_id":"Max+Weber"},{"text":"When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it.","author":"Stewart Stafford","tags":["comprehend","comprehension","condescension","knowledge","knowledge-of-people","philosophy-of-life","understand","understanding","understanding-oneself-and-others","understanding-others","understanding"],"id":275615,"author_id":"Stewart+Stafford"},{"text":"Of what use is it to be tolerant of others if you are convinced that you are right and everyone who disagrees with you is wrong? That isn’t tolerance but condescension.","author":"Anthony de Mello","tags":["condescension","tolerance"],"id":287126,"author_id":"Anthony+de+Mello"},{"text":"I don't purchase people with money, or hiss like a snake to attract their attention, all I do is to rest on my couch because I have the conviction that no human can progress with an exception without a power behind.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["attraction","aura","beg","beggar","beggars","belief","believe-in-yourself","breakthrough","condescend","condescending","condescension","content","contented","conviction","equanimity","excel","fame","hiss","honor","honour","humility","individuality","meek","michael-bassey-johnson","money","much-ado-about-nothing","mystic","popularity","power-behind","pride","progress","reserved","self-reliance","self-respect","snake","unpopularity","withdrawal","withdrawn"],"id":319660,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}