Top 100 Quotes About Superiority
#1. The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority.
Alfred Adler
#2. No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival.
Honore De Balzac
#3. Being generous often consists of simply extending a hand. That's hard to do if you are grasping tightly to your righteousness, your belief system, your superiority, your assumptions about others, your definition of normal.
Patti Digh
#4. A dog gladly admits the superiority of his master over himself, accepts his judgment as final, but, contrary to what dog-lovers believe, he does not consider himself as a slave. His submission is voluntary, and he expects his own small rights to be respected.
Axel Munthe
#5. I believed, in the way of adolescents, in the absolute correctness and superiority of my love.
Emma Cline
#6. One needs either equality or political and economic superiority.
Andrea Dworkin
#7. A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.
Lawrence G. Lovasik
#8. And whilst he may not claim superiority by reason of learning, I myself must not withold that meed of homage that learning, wherever it resides, always commands.
Mahatma Gandhi
#9. Multiculturalism asserts that all cultures are equal and therefore none may criticize another; intellectuals and politicians are therefore reluctant to declare the obvious superiority of Western culture to Islamic culture.
Edwin A. Locke
#10. It became clear to her observers that she was not quick at shifting her facial scenery. It was as though her countenance had so long been set in an expression of unchallenged superiority that the muscles had stiffened, and refused to obey her orders.
Edith Wharton
#11. Air superiority is a condition for all operations, at sea, in land, and in the air.
Arthur Tedder
#12. Amal,I believe that most Americans do not love as we do. It is not for any inherent deficiency or superiority in them. They live in the safe, shallow, parts that rarely push human emotions into the depths where we dwell.
Susan Abulhawa
#13. Black! Black! Black! I am proud of being a Negro. Nor have I ever tried to beg tolerance from anyone. Superiority is not proved by color, but by the brain, by education, by willpower, by moral courage.
Jose Celso Barbosa
#14. Old among the young, poor among the rich, I adopt an air of indefinable superiority.
Mason Cooley
#15. Because they dream so strongly in themselves, their superiority and women's inferiority, they project an image that a woman finds very, very difficult to fight against.
Frederick Lenz
#16. The suspicion is in the air nowadays that the superiority of one of our formulas to another may not consist so much in its literal 'objectivity,' as in subjective qualities like its usefulness, its 'elegance,' or its congruity with our residual beliefs
William James
#17. People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
Van Wyck Brooks
#19. By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority.
Gene Sharp
#20. Jesus declared that we should have one distinguishing mark: not political correctness or moral superiority, but love.
Philip Yancey
#21. Power seems to confer on its possessor a mantle of superiority, specialness, and sexual potency, which the envious person desperately wants because he feels himself on some level to be inferior, unimportant, and impotent.
Alexander Lowen
#22. It should seem, then, that the nature of society dictates another, a higher branch, whose superiority arises from its being the interested and natural conservator of the universal interest.
Ezra Stiles
#23. There are some men who, in a spirit of arrogance, think they are superior to women. They do not seem to realize that they would not exist but for the mother who gave them birth. When they assert their superiority they demean her.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#24. It has been petrified into a slavery of thought and sentiment, as intolerant superiority on the part of the few and an intolerable burden on the part of the many.
John Dewey
#25. All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.
Peter Singer
#26. Being a female director become as professional as your male colleagues and forget the whole question about being female. You are female anyway and it is going to work in your favor. The scope of female professional superiority can be understood by so few men that mostly they do not miss it.
Pirjo Honkasalo
#27. Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
Sydney J. Harris
#28. Atheism: the religion devoted to the worship of one's own smug sense of superiority.
Stephen Colbert
#29. The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can.
Moses Mendelssohn
#30. I think most human beings are dualistic thinkers. It gets them through the day. It gives them a sense of superiority and security - that's what the ego wants.
Richard Rohr
#31. Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.
Honore De Balzac
#32. Past has a very great superiority over the future: The future may not exist; but the past existed!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#33. Brains. Brains. What do we really mean by the term? In your idiom you would say that Jane Wilkinson has the brains of a rabbit. That is a term of disparagement. But consider the rabbit for a moment. He exists and multiplies, does he not? That, in Nature, is a sign of mental superiority.
Agatha Christie
#34. I reject the idea that humans are superior to other life forms ... Man is just an ape with an overly developed sense of superiority.
Paul Watson
#35. I did not read from a sense of superiority, or advancement, or even learning. I read because I loved it more than any other activity on earth.
Anna Quindlen
#36. The idle wife ranked with the ornamentally wrought weapon and with the splendid offering to the gods as a measure of the man's power to waste, and therefore his superiority over other men ... As is the case with any other object of art, her uselessness is her use.
Emily James Smith Putnam
#37. Numerical superiority is of no consequence. In battle, victory will go to the best tactician.- G. A. Custer
Robert Asprin
#38. Air control can be established by superiority in numbers, by better employment, by better equipment, or by a combination of these factors.
Carl Andrew Spaatz
#39. Damn stupid vampires and their stupid sense of stupid superiority-
Carrie Vaughn
#40. By using the word 'tolerance,' you're simply placing yourself on a higher plane than those you tolerate. Tolerance is only possible when one fosters a deep-rooted sense of superiority.
Herman Koch
#41. We are wrong to fear superiority of mind and soul; this superiority is very moral, for understanding everything makes a person tolerant and the capacity to feel deeply inspires great goodness.
Bill Vaughan
#42. Clothes therefore, must be the insignia of the superiority of man over all other animals, for surely there could be no other reason for wearing the hideous things
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#43. Strength comes from ignoring your critics.
Power comes from mastering your fears.
Fortitude comes from wrestling your opponents.
Superiority comes from overcoming your losses.
Greatness comes from conquering your weaknesses.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#44. I would not be surprised if elephants are more intelligent than human beings. After all, their heads are larger than ours, and the fact that they do not speak might well be an indication of superiority.
Gore Vidal
#45. There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions, who will do anything. Of course we make him pay afterward for his moment of superiority, his moment of impressiveness.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#46. Atheism, a religion dedicated to its own sense of smug superiority.
Stephen Colbert
#47. I was rather fond of her, but I was even fonder of my vices, my mania for running away from everywhere in search of God knows what, driven, I suppose, by stupid pride, by a sense of some sort of superiority
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#48. There is no forgiveness when one who claims a superiority falls below the standard.
Frantz Fanon
#49. The thing about life, is that you never know where you stand. It's almost impossible to place yourself in a position of superiority- not against other people, not against yourself.
Leigh Hershkovich
#50. The New York voice reflects its diversity, its foreignness, and, inevitably, the sense of superiority New Yorkers feel or come to feel. It says, without saying, We Know.
Marya Mannes
#51. The question of whether one alleges the Superiority or Inferiority of any given race is irrelevant; racism has only one psychological root: the racist's sense of his own Inferiority.
Ayn Rand
#52. Biological Superiority: The World's Most Dangerous and Deadly Idea.
Andrea Dworkin
#54. The belief in the sanctity of one's idiosyncrasy - especially if it be a group idiosyncrasy, and therefore sustained and intensified by mutual flattery - is rapidly converted into a belief in its superiority. More
Ken Wilber
#55. Just as it was pointless to argue whether birds or fish were superior, debating the superiority of man or machine was also meaningless.
Hiroshi Yamamoto
#56. When plugged in, the least elaborate computer can be relied on to work to the fullest extent of its capacity. The greatest mind cannot be relied on for the simplest thing; its variability is its superiority.
Jacques Barzun
#57. Inferiority Complex: A wholly or partly unconscious sense of inferiority, or feelings of lack of worth. The overcompensation of these feelings can lead to neurotic symptoms. Superiority Complex: Suppressing feelings that exist in an attempt to conquer an inferiority complex. According
Paul Kleinman
#58. White people have always shown their superiority over blacks with their feet, moving out of black neighborhoods with the fear that their kids will turn into one of them. And now, through the magic of MTV, damned if it didn't turn out that way!
Bill Maher
#59. A kung fu man who was really good was not proud at all. Pride emphasizes the superiority of one's status. There has to be fear and insecurity in pride, because when you aim at being highly esteemed and achieve such status, you automatically start to worry about losing status.
Bruce Lee
#60. The superiority of chocolate (hot chocolate), both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain.
Thomas Jefferson
#61. But they are commonly more distinguished by their superiority in the latter than in the former. Their
Adam Smith
#62. Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen.
Vladimir Putin
#63. It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence of superiority and inferiority.
Mahatma Gandhi
#64. The need to compile lists is a personality disorder, as is the need to assert the superiority of some things over other things.
Jeremy Hardy
#65. Brains are still unfashionable for women to wear, and it has always been proof of women's superiority that the more intelligent a man is, the more women admire him, while the bigger fool a woman is, the more men run after her.
Dorothea Dix
#66. Though he sought simplicity, he dread dulness. Dimly conscious that he was dull himself, he craved the stimulus of a quicker mind; yet he feared a dull wife less than a brilliant one, for with the latter how could he maintain his superiority?
Edith Wharton
#67. it is evident that there is another logical alternative: that there can be societies in which difference is not necessarily equated with inferiority or superiority.
Riane Eisler
#68. And you'll need a leader to do it. A man of bold vision, one who promises you a world where you're not only safe - you're in charge. Not equal rights. Superiority for the superior.
Marcus Sakey
#69. superiority as superiority" - automatically denied to those who asked for explanations.
Ayn Rand
#70. To keep hope alive one must, in spite of all mistakes, horrors, and crimes, recognize the obvious superiority of the socialist camp.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#71. A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.
Graham Greene
#72. The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
Henry James
#73. So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.
Jules Verne
#74. His voice almost undid her. It was exactly as she remembered from school, casual, familiar, polite. Not arrogant, because arrogance implied one had to establish one's superiority. Denovo's voice assumed it.
Max Gladstone
#75. In fact, if anybody on the Somme battlefield is overdue to be treated with a little pathos it is not the attackers, with their threefold artillery superiority, total control of the air and copious reserves of of manpower, but rather the German defenders opposite.
Alexander Watson
#76. The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.
Joseph Sobran
#77. The original home of the Aryan race appears to have been somewhere among the mountains and lofty table-lands of Central Asia. The word 'Arya,' meaning the high or the excellent, indicates their superiority over the neighboring races long before the beginning of history.
Bayard Taylor
#78. Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?
Emile Zola
#79. Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.
George Washington
#80. You think you're superior to the others, don't you? We'll you're not. In fact you're worse for mistaking basic human decency for moral superiority.
Nenia Campbell
#81. The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
Ashley Montagu
#82. And now, As I come near the end of this book in which I have recorded so many considerable achievements of the Americans, if I am asked how we should account for the unusual prosperity and growing strength of this nation, I would reply that they must be attributed to the superiority of their woman.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#83. Sauces comprise the honor and glory of French cookery. They have contributed to its superiority, or pre-eminence, which is disputed by none. Sauces are the orchestration and accompaniment of a fine meal, and enable a good chef or cook to demonstrate his talent.
Curnonsky
#84. Superiority - doing things a little better than anybody else can do them.
Orison Swett Marden
#85. Surprise becomes effective when we suddenly face the enemy at one point with far more troops than he expected. This type of numerical superiority is quite distinct from numerical superiority in general: it is the most powerful medium in the art of war.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#86. Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#87. I normally can't stand vice-free people. They conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. Plus they suck the life right out of a party.
Dennis Lehane
#88. Oh my God!" I hear him yell to just about everybody. "Did you see that?! That was John Waters. I'm almost certain he has shit his pants!!" I hear grown men laugh in constipated smugness and digestive superiority.
John Waters
#89. Westcliff looks for any excuse to demonstrate his superiority, doesn't he?" "Was that what he was doing? It looked rather like he was trying to find an excuse to put his arms around you.
Lisa Kleypas
#90. That adult trait of being convinced of anything by an assumption of silent superiority
William Faulkner
#91. Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#92. Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America.
Camille Paglia
#93. If you want to enter into a state of pure connection with your child, you can achieve this by setting aside any sense of superiority.
Shefali Tsabary
#94. It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.
James Smithson
#95. The economic disasters of socialism and communism come from assuming a blanket superiority of those who want to run a whole economy.
Thomas Sowell
#96. I never call them 'guys;' I always call them 'boys.' Maybe it's a superiority complex - my needing to keep them down.
Megan Fox
#97. The military superiority of Europe to Asia is not an eternal law of nature, as we are tempted to think, and our superiority in civilization is a mere delusion.
Bertrand Russell
#98. Fundamentalist Islamic terror is not grounded in the terrorists' conviction of their superiority and in their desire to safeguard their cultural-religious identity from the onslaught of global consumerist civilization.
Slavoj Zizek
#99. Because I've never had any higher education of any sort, I've never held in awe those who have had it or have a sense of superiority over those who don't.
Jeremy Corbyn
#100. Feelings of superiority always stem from an illusion.
Marty Rubin
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