Read through the most famous quotes by topic #condescension
People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid. ↗
...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. ↗