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.

American Author

Tommy Fleetwood

Golf has been the sport of the social elite, with lawyers and doctors. But I have never been embarrassed by the looks I've been given by others. I have sometimes been looked at with condescension and it still happens now, but I know how to deal with it - I know whose opinions count.

English Athlete

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.

American Writer

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.

American Editor

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.

Israeli Author

Euzhan Palcy

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.

Director

Sarah Weinman

Laura' was overtly political for sure. Caspary was trying to make a point about women and independence and how men viewed them, with derision or condescension or on a pedestal, when the real person was ignored.

American Journalist

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.

American Economist

Stella Young

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

Australian Comedian

Phillips Brooks

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

American Clergyman

The word 'condescension' commonly carries a negative implication of arrogance.

Often Negative

'Condescension' can subtly convey mockery, as if the speaker is feigning politeness.

Subtle Mockery

It's often used to describe a power imbalance, where one person patronizes another.

Power Dynamics

This form emphasizes an intentional act of lowering one's own status.

Voluntary Demotion

Sometimes, the action of 'condescension' is seen as a positive humility.

Can Be Positive

The perception of the act can depend on whether it's seen as genuine or pretentious.

Depends on Intent

 But the age of condescension is now over, so the tangible opportunity in a less uniform, more value-driven world for these countries is that they have much greater choice in the path to follow, and arguably greater pressure to get it right.

Mike O'Sullivan: The end...

 she herself piloted and after that that kind of condescension and patriotizing tone grew far more mute and amelia's career was launched into the stratosphere she became a worldwide celebrity which gave her a megaphone and access to power

Condescension

Often Negative

Subtle Mockery

Power Dynamics

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