Sense Of Superiority Quotes

#1. The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.

Henry Rollins

#2. we are highly invested in feeling different from one another - and superior - no matter how flimsy the grounds for our sense of superiority, and no matter how self-sabotaging that may end up being. You

Leonard Mlodinow

#3. The attitude was a sense of superiority so dense as to be impenetrable. A feeling of this kind leads to ignorance of the world and of others because it suppresses curiosity.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#4. Kaylin hated politics. Hated them. She hated the stupid decisions, the game playing, the grandstanding. She hated political decisions made by people who never had to do any of the law's actual work. She hated the pervasive sense of superiority and smugness that underlay all of the rules.

Michelle Sagara

#5. Being six feet off the ground does give one a sense of superiority.

Megan Whalen Turner

#6. Whatever makes us feel superior to other people, whatever tempts us to convey a sense of superiority, that is the gravity of our sinful nature, not grace.

Philip Yancey

#7. The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

Leonard Cohen

#8. What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.

Alice James

#9. Atheism: the religion devoted to the worship of one's own smug sense of superiority.

Stephen Colbert

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. Racism is not dead, but it is on life support
kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists'

Thomas Sowell

#16. To feel strong, to walk amongst humans with a tremendous feeling of confidence and superiority is not at all wrong. The sense of superiority in bodily strength is borne out by the long history of mankind paying homage in folklore, song and poetry to strong men

Fredrick Hatfield

#17. Be kind; you're only here for a while. No sense of superiority, just do things for others. It's really fun.

Frederick Lenz

#18. That's right ... I never felt a sense of superiority because I could see spirits. And I never once thought that I could make a living or help someone with it. I just longed for a life where I couldn't see them. And I finally got what I always wanted.

Tite Kubo

#19. It was difficult to maintain any sense of superiority in the face of his utter dependence on other people.

Joe Abercrombie

#20. Whoever gives advice to the sick gains a sense of superiority over them, no matter whether his advice is accepted or rejected. That is why sick people who are sensitive and proud hate their advisors even more than their illnesses.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#21. The real problem, both in discussions of mass shootings and in discussions of gun control, is that too many people are too committed to a vision to allow mere facts to interfere with their beliefs, and the sense of superiority that those beliefs give them.

Thomas Sowell

#22. You who are non-believers rely upon us, to confirm your sense of superiority. You need to imagine us as unchanged, unchangeable.

Joyce Carol Oates

#23. Decolonisation seems to have dented little the sense of superiority that since 1945 has made American leaders in particular consistently underestimate the intensity of nationalist feeling in Asia and Africa.

Pankaj Mishra

#24. Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America.

Camille Paglia

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits.

Mason Cooley

#28. What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

Arthur Erickson

#29. A high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.; the state or feeling of being proud; a becoming or dignified sense of what is due to oneself or one's position or

L. Velez

#30. Some build their sense of personal worth by comparing themselves to others. That approach can lead to feelings of inadequacy or superiority. It is preferable to look directly to our Father for our sense of self-worth.

Quentin L. Cook

#31. what might have looked like courage proved to be a deficit of common sense and an excess of self-importance, too strong a faith in his genius and superiority - not courage at all, but the rash actions of an ordinary narcissist incapable of imagining that he might fail.

Dean Koontz

#32. Since the war, we're the only intelligent species left in the universe, therefore we think everything in this universe has to conform to our paradigm of what makes sense. Do you have any idea how arrogant that view is and on how little of this universe we base it?

Robert Buettner

#33. Consider an achievement accidental if it is not coupled with modesty. Because if the achiever had endeavoured for it, it would certainly have killed their pride.

Raheel Farooq

#34. Damn stupid vampires and their stupid sense of stupid superiority-

Carrie Vaughn

#35. Atheism, a religion dedicated to its own sense of smug superiority.

Stephen Colbert

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. She only felt revulsion for any kind if religious fundamentalists. The very thought if such people's intolerant worldview, their inflated sense of their own superiority, and thei callous imposition of their own beliefs on others was enough to fill her with rage.

Haruki Murakami

#40. Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.

William Osler

#41. Humans are no less eager than in the past to dominate, degrade, humiliate, and control - often in order to confirm their own sense of pride and superiority. (Adam Smith wrote in 1776 that this was the main motive for slavery.) But

David Brion Davis