Top 75 Inferiors Quotes
#1. We can all perceive the difference between ourselves and our inferiors, but when it comes to a question of the difference between us and our superiors we fail to appreciate merits of which we have no proper conceptions.
James F. Cooper
#2. One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.
Miguel De Cervantes
#3. Segregation is that which is forced upon inferiors by superiors. But separation is that which is done voluntarily, by two equals- for the good of both.
Malcolm X
#4. The same amount of pride which makes a man treat haughtily his inferiors, makes him cringe servilely; to those above him.
Jean De La Bruyere
#5. Being a nation means standing up to your equals, whereas being an empire only means kicking your inferiors.
G.K. Chesterton
#6. Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.
Wilfred Burchett
#7. Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
Aristotle.
#8. Generally our confidences move downward rather than upward; in our secret affairs, we employ our inferiors much more than our bettors.
Honore De Balzac
#9. One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
- Plato
Sienna Wilder
#10. There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good habits, good temper, patience, order, courtesy, tact, self-reliance, many deference to superior officers, and many consideration for inferiors.
Chester A. Arthur
#11. In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
Bertrand Russell
#12. the ancient saying that force outdoes inferiors while gentility outdoes superiors.
Liezi
#13. There is nothing more becoming any wise man, than to make choice of friends, for by them thou shalt be judged what thou art: let them therefore be wise and virtuous, and none of those that follow thee for gain; but make election rather of thy betters, than thy inferiors.
Walter Raleigh
#14. Like most people, I feel ambiguous guilt for my inferiors, ambiguous envy for my superiors, and mandatory low-spirits about the system itself.
Martin Amis
#15. Be superior by having no inferiors. Don't force for equality, but give. For it is not up to us to decide how others treat us, rather it is up to us how we treat each other, and how we improve as individuals.
JD
#16. Three-quarters of the expenditure of wit and the lies told out of vanity that have been squandered since the world began by people who in doing so merely diminish themselves have been squandered on inferiors.
Marcel Proust
#17. Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors.
John Calvin
#18. Women are not men's equals in anything except responsibility. We are not their inferiors, either, or even their superiors. We are quite simply different races.
Phyllis McGinley
#19. The rich never have a chance of being neighborly to their equals. The best they can do is feel mawkish about the sufferings of their inferiors, which they can never begin to understand, and to be patronizingly kind.
Aldous Huxley
#20. We owe it to the fields that our houses will not be the inferiors of the virgin land they have replaced. We owe it to the worms and the trees that the building we cover them with will stand as promises of the highest and most intelligent kinds of happiness.
Alain De Botton
#21. It already appears, that there must be in every society of men superiors and inferiors, because God has laid in the constitution and course of nature the foundations of the distinction.
John Adams
#22. The smartest people in Washington are the political reporters. They write about their inferiors.
Joseph Heller
#23. In literature as in life, to conform to anything is to knuckle under to your inferiors.
Kenneth Patchen
#24. When superiors are fond of showing their humanity, inferiors try to outstrip one another in their practice of it.
Confucius
#25. Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won't do that.
Walt Disney
#26. Treat your inferiors in the way in which you would like to be treated by your own superiors. And whenever it strikes you how much power you have over your slave, let it also strike you that your own master has just as much power over you.
Seneca.
#27. Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it.
Confucius
#28. The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#29. If thou hast no inferiors, have patience awhile, and thou shalt have no superiors. The grave requires no marshal.
Francis Quarles
#30. Women need the archetypal image of a Divine Female. We need to reconnect with the inherent sacredness of woman as creator and nourisher, rather than accept a vision of ourselves as less-than-divine inferiors.
Layne Redmond
#31. The privileged Victorians who did most to improve the lives of the poor were not ashamed of their pious intent: they were superiors seeking to help inferiors.
Michel Faber
#32. Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly.
H.L. Mencken
#33. As long as people overlook matters, then inferiors can, without any fear, lead an easy and peaceful life.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
#34. To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
Benjamin Franklin
#35. The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.
William Hazlitt
#36. Thus our arrogance grows as we seek to exalt ourselves above others, as if we were different from them. Truly, there's no one who does not flippantly and boldly disregard and despise others as inferiors. Yes,
John Calvin
#37. The characteristic of a well-bred man is, to converse with his inferiors without insolence, and with his superiors with respect and with ease.
Doug Stanhope
#38. [On hearing that Clare Boothe Luce was invariably kind to her inferiors:] And where does she find them?
Dorothy Parker
#39. Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.
Albert Einstein
#40. There should be no inferiors and no superiors for true world friendship.
Carlos P. Romulo
#41. It is a common law of nature, which no time will ever change, that superiors shall rule their inferiors.
Dionysius Of Halicarnassus
#42. Resigned that those surrounding him had no idea who he was, and invariably kind to his social and intellectual inferiors, he sometimes felt doubly hurt that those who ought to have understood him really had less respect for him than his most casual acquaintances.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#44. There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#45. A gentleman can always be told by the way he speaks to those that he thinks are his inferiors in some respect. His equals he does not wish to offend, his superiors he does not dare to offend, and of those whom he considers his inferiors he would be all the more considerate.
Fanny Jackson Coppin
#46. What is the use of this fuss about morality when the issue only involves a horse? The first and most difficult teaching of civilisation concerns man's behaviour to his inferiors. Make humanity gentle or reasonable toward animals, and strife or injustice between human beings would speedily terminate.
Edward Mayhew
#47. Geniuses are justifiably contemptuous of the opinions of their inferiors.
Jubal
#48. Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich-when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.
Dionysius Of Halicarnassus
#49. Most of us give little thought to the importance or the meaning of a homeland. Not until we ourselves are foreigners fighting for acceptance, stripped of all ranks and titles and viewed as inferiors, do we miss that privilege.
Oksana Marafioti
#51. Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.
John Irving
#52. And it is certain that those who do not yield to their equals, who keep terms with their superiors, and are moderate towards their inferiors, on the whole succeed best.
Thucydides
#53. When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy by his inferiors. It should be a rule that bad writers must start with plain heroines and ordinary mornings, and, if they are able, work up to something better.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#54. When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
Irving Layton
#55. Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors
Plato
#56. A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#57. It is a hard thing for intellectuals to acknowledge benefits from their rich moral inferiors who never so intended it.
Victor Davis Hanson
#58. If you want to know what a mans like,see how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.'-Sirius black.
J.K. Rowling
#59. Judge a man not by how he treats his equals but by how he treats his inferiors.
Charlie Chaplin
#60. Three-quarters of the mental ingenuity and the mendacious boasting squandered ever since the world began by people who are only cheapened thereby, have been aimed at inferiors.
Marcel Proust
#61. How cruel the Penal Laws are which exclude me from a fair trial with men whom I look upon as so much my inferiors ...
Daniel O'Connell
#62. If a superior intimidates their inferiors, the inferiors would end up losing self confidence.
Saaif Alam
#63. One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato
#64. If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
J.K. Rowling
#65. Ahimsa can be practiced only towards those that are inferior to you in every way.
Mahatma Gandhi
#66. A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
Aristotle.
#67. So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you.
Seneca The Younger
#69. Teach the children that Africans are not one iota inferior to Europeans.
Nelson Mandela
#70. Everything without God is pathetically inferior to God without everything.
Sam Storms
#72. Life is too short to read inferior books.
James Bryce
#74. I've never been put down by a man, unless I deserved it, and have never felt inferior,
Beryl Bainbridge
#75. In spirituality the Americans are very inferior to us. But their society is very superior to ours
Swami Vivekananda
