Inferior Quotes

#1. The great move mountains;
the cowardly hide behind them.
The extraordinary walk on water;
the mediocre drown on land.
The excellent perform miracles;
the inferior carry out mischief.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#2. I had to be different ... so I would not be inferior. We could not occupy the same space together. Like horses in a race, I was tired of jostling for position and losing. I chose a different course so that losing would not be an option.

Julianne Donaldson

#3. In spirituality the Americans are very inferior to us. But their society is very superior to ours

Swami Vivekananda

#4. The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man. It is a remoter and inferior incarnation of God, a projection of God in the unconscious.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. As royalty, celebrities and the rich have always known, a smile is the most subtle and satisfying way of shitting on the inferior.

Michael Foley

#6. For the will cannot be forced into such iniquity by anything superior or equal to it, since that would be unjust; or by anything inferior to it, since that is impossible.

Augustine Of Hippo

#7. Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren.

Jules Michelet

#8. The most important quality of art and its aim is illusion; emotion, which is often obtained by certain sacrifices of poetic detail, is something else entirely and of an inferior order.

Gustave Flaubert

#9. I advance it therefore [...] that the blacks [...] are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body and mind.

Thomas Jefferson

#10. Sex and race, because they are easy and visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labour on which this system still depends.

Gloria Steinem

#11. Confucius taught this when he said, "The superior man seeks what is right; the inferior man, what is profitable.

Bohdi Sanders

#12. A Southerner, inferior.

Lauren Groff

#13. The person of superior integrity
does not insist upon his integrity.
For this reason, he has integrity.
The person of inferior integrity
never loses sight of his integrity;
For this reason, he lacks integrity.

Lao-Tzu

#14. If we are to keep our flock at the highest pitch of excellence, there should be as many unions of the best of both sexes, and as few of the inferior as possible, and that only the offspring of the better unions should be kept.

Plato

#15. know that you are not inferior to anyone and that everyone is equal-race, gender, and size are not factors.

N.a.

#16. The so-called Transcendentalists are not the only people who deal in Transcendentals. On the contrary, we seem to see that the Utilitarians,
the every-day world's people themselves, far transcend those inferior Transcendentalists by their own incomprehensible worldly maxims.

Herman Melville

#17. You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.

Socrates

#18. I've never been put down by a man, unless I deserved it, and have never felt inferior,

Beryl Bainbridge

#19. One does not like to be told that one is naturally the inferior of a little man

Virginia Woolf

#20. Be obedient to your superior, and your inferior will obey you.

Muhammad Ali

#21. You were able to kill him," Will said. You, a girl. That's what he meant. Like owning a vagina made me inferior in some fundamental way.

Laura Thalassa

#22. The so-called religious organizations which now lead the war against the teaching of evolution are nothing more, at bottom, than conspiracies of the inferior man against his betters.

H.L. Mencken

#23. I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments of both body and mind.

Thomas Jefferson

#24. People who make decisions based merely on what seems most advisable to them will inevitably choose something inferior to God's best. Jesus, the ultimate model for the Christian life, did not rely on His own best thinking, but depended completely on His heavenly Father for wisdom in everything.

Henry Blackaby

#25. I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.

Ellen Glasgow

#26. Some people are blinded by their experience. Soldiers know how important war is. Owners of slaves learn every day how inferior subject peoples are.

William Stafford

#27. The superior man responds; the inferior man reacts.

Bohdi Sanders

#28. Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor.

Christopher Hart

#29. To all those who have drawn the inference from my words that Africa, as a continent, is somehow genetically inferior, I can only apologise unreservedly.

James D. Watson

#30. The eurozone status quo is neither tolerable nor stable. Mainstream economists would call it an inferior equilibrium; I call it a nightmare - one that is inflicting tremendous pain and suffering that could be easily avoided if the misconceptions and taboos that sustain it were dispelled.

George Soros

#31. Eragon! I never want to hear you use that excuse again, that because someone else has done
or would do
something means that you should too. It's lazy, repugnant, and indicative of an inferior mind. Am I clear?

Christopher Paolini

#32. Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind.

Aristotle.

#33. Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the most destructive way of being different.

Paulo Coelho

#34. For know that all the inferior Creatures when hurt do cry and send forth the complaints to their Maker or grand Fountain whence they proceeded.

Tom Tryon

#35. The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.

H.G.Wells

#36. I'm not married," he said softly, "because I can't stomach the idea of marrying a woman inferior to me in mind and spirit. It would mean the death of my soul.

Sarah J. Maas

#37. All duties are matters of conscience, with this restriction that a superior obligation suspends the force of an inferior one.

Roger L'Estrange

#38. Yeah, I like causing trouble. It's the teddy boy in me. I used to be a teddy boy. Feeling slightly inferior and wanting to cause a bit of bother and get some action going on in the room rather than get bored stiff.

Michael Gambon

#39. One often has need of one, inferior to himself.

Jean De La Fontaine

#40. Thus, he says, those who would "eliminate from the universe" what they think of as "inferior beings" would simply "eliminate Providence itself," whose nature it is to "produce all things and to diversify all in the manner of their existence.

Ken Wilber

#41. We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.

Elizabeth Janeway

#42. I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior; if you want to be tragical, write about at least one person to whom the audience is bound to feel inferior, and no fair having human problems solved by dumb luck or heavenly intervention.

Kurt Vonnegut

#43. He who is conversant with the supernal powers will not worship these inferior deities of the wind, waves, tide, and sunshine. Butwe would not disparage the importance of such calculations as we have described. They are truths in physics because they are true in ethics.

Henry David Thoreau

#44. The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.

Richard Steele

#45. Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned everything is war

Bob Marley

#46. There is a figure that links the personal and the collective shadow; it is the Trickster. Jung describes the Trickster as 'the summation of all the inferior traits of character in individuals'.

Christopher Perry

#47. ...Mabel put on the boiled potatos, unmashed, the stewed tomatos, some inferior dried beef, and some bread that plainly said, 'Darling, I am growing old'.

Bess Streeter Aldrich

#48. I should thank Mussolini for having declared me to be of an inferior race. This led me to the joy of working, not any more, unfortunately, in university institutes but in a bedroom.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

#49. Noone can make u feel inferior until u urself consent to it.

Jackie Kennedy

#50. Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence.

Paul Strand

#51. It is more than enough to be ethically and evolutionarily developed human being. All other titles and identities of man are inferior to this fact!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#52. Feeling inferior is complex; being superior is easy.

Robert J. Braathe

#53. When you deal with naked power from an inferior position, perspectives get distorted. He was the aggrieved party and yet he felt guilty and would continue to do so all his life.

Kiran Nagarkar

#54. Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.

John Lancaster Spalding

#55. A family man from Siberia
As a father was very inferior
But one operation
Revised the situation
And now he's Mother Superior

Spike Milligan

#56. All women are inferior to men.

Garry Kasparov

#57. Superior and inferior wage one hundred battles a day.

Han Fei

#58. POPPY: Don't just agree with me because it's my birthday, and I'm special, and you feel inferior under the shadow of my specialness.

Bijou Hunter

#59. The struggle for the vote was an effort to bring men to feel less superior and women to feel less inferior.

Carrie Chapman Catt

#60. Life is too short for reading inferior books.

James Bryce

#61. When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying to them.

Samuel Johnson

#62. Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.

C.S. Lewis

#63. Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?

Rachel Carson

#64. Women were relegated to an inferior caste ... most dramatically with the coming of industrialization. 'Women's work' was segregated from significant human activity.

Madonna Kolbenschlag

#65. Many Americans feel themselves inferior in the presence of anyone with an English accent, which is why an English accent has become fashionable in television commercials; it is thought to sound authoritative.

Edwin Newman

#66. You do not have an inferior function, it has you.

C. G. Jung

#67. The liberty of the press, trial by jury, the Habeas Corpus Writ, even Magna Carta itself, although justly deemed the paladia of freedom, are all inferior considerations, when compared with the general distribution of real property among every class of people.

Noah Webster

#68. When a general, unable to estimate the enemy's strength, allows an inferior force to engage a larger one, or hurls a weak detachment against a powerful one, and neglects to place picked soldiers in the front rank, the result must be rout.

Sun Tzu

#69. The industries that fall first are the industries that either produce electromechanical items that are now inferior to their software substitutes, or the industries that produce a mechanically created service that's now inferior.

Michael J. Saylor

#70. The guerrilla band is not to be considered inferior to the army against which it fights simply because it is inferior in fire power.

Che Guevara

#71. For so many years, I felt so insecure, so inferior, and I still have those moments, but I have a newfound confidence since I got in shape and changed my diet.

Marc Jacobs

#72. When I was nine, I was singing western swing: Roy Rogers and Patsy Cline. It got me noticed because no one my age was doing it, but it made me feel inferior because none of my friends could relate to it.

Kacey Musgraves

#73. Life is an extended camping trip. With a leaky, inferior tent one runs no more risk of rain than anyone else; but if it does rain, the person in the cheap tent chances soaking in his sleeping bag, and possibly dying of hypothermia.

William T. Vollmann

#74. Werewolves did not consider wolves one of their own; in fact, wolves were inferior. They were hunters, strong and ravenous like them, but they weren't as big or as intelligent.

Janiera Eldridge

#75. There's no such thing as a perfect guy. I think it would be strange if somebody was absolutely everything you always wanted, because then there'd be no challenge. Also, you'd feel inferior.

Jessica Alba

#76. The man of good character is humble before those less educated than him, compassionate to those less fortunate than him, and kind to those inferior to him.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#77. The idea of a superior or inferior race is a myth that has been completely refuted by anthropological evidence.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#78. Life is too short to read inferior books.

James Bryce

#79. He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.

Jeremy Taylor

#80. While so much is said of the inferior intellect of woman, it is by a strange absurdity conceded that very many eminent men owe their station in life to their mothers.

Matilda Joslyn Gage

#81. The schoolmaster is generally a man of some importance in the female circle of a rural neighborhood, being considered a kind of idle, gentlemanlike personage, of vastly superior taste and accomplishments to the rough country swains, and, indeed, inferior in learning only to the parson.

Washington Irving

#82. People can only make you inferior with your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#83. The popular eye is not untrained; it is only wrongly trained - trained by inferior and insincere visual representations.

Ben Shahn

#84. There is a natural prejudice which prompts men to despise whomsoever has been their inferior long after he is become their equal;

Alexis De Tocqueville

#85. We are always immeasurably bigger than the little person we've too often doomed ourselves to be.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#86. If equally matched, we can offer battle; if slightly inferior in numbers, we can avoid the enemy; if quite unequal in every way, we can flee from him. Though an obstinate fight may be made by a small force, in the end it must be captured by the larger force.

Sun Tzu

#87. All the impoverishing effects of socialism are with us in the U.S.: reduced levels of investment and saving, the misallocation of resources, the overutilization and vandalization of factors of production, and the inferior quality of products and services.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

#88. There, as the sacred mysteries tell us, the Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones occupy the first places; but, unable to yield to them, and impatient of any second place, let us emulate their dignity and glory. And, if we will it, we shall be inferior to them in nothing.

Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

#89. But if the Negro is so distinctly inferior, it is a strange thing to me that it takes such tremendous effort on the part of the white man to make him realize it, and to keep him in the same place into which inferior men naturally fall.

James Weldon Johnson

#90. How could servants create such beauty and still be considered inferior? They are capable of wonders different from our own.

Victoria Aveyard

#91. By voluntarily adopting a dominated body posture you display the fact that you have accepted to be inferior.

J.F. Bouchard

#92. Superior technical achievements - used correctly both strategically and tactically - can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior.

Adolf Galland

#93. Being on the fringes of the world is not the best place for someone who intends to re-create it: here again, to go beyond the given, one must be deeply rooted in it. Personal accomplishments are almost impossible in human categories collectively kept in an inferior situation.

Simone De Beauvoir

#94. The inferior man attempts a hundred intrigues in order to save himself, but finishes only in creating a greater calamity from which he cannot run.

Wang Yangming

#95. Thousands upon thousands of lights is inferior to a light of heart.

Gautama Buddha

#96. It is said that the inferior seek to emulate the superior. Thus, if a general slackens only a little, those beneath him will be greatly negligent.

Kato Kiyomasa

#97. I never found anything in the company of people, however I tried, and I did try; at least all my peers, all my comrades to a man, proved to be inferior to me in thinking; I don't remember a single exception.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#98. Weak men like humble women, especially great women who make them feel as inferior.

Brent Weeks

#99. With a higher moral nature will come a restriction on the multiplication of the inferior.

Herbert Spencer

#100. The combined outrage of the millions of creatures which have suffered at the hands of man may well combine to haunt us. We are all of the same family, though destiny has assigned us to different roles: in our relationship with animals, we should regard them as different, not inferior.

Dennis Bardens