Quotes about Superiority

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it. Votes: 7

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive. Votes: 6

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world. Votes: 6

A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility. Votes: 6

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority. Votes: 6

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority. Votes: 6

There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority. Votes: 6

A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view. Votes: 6

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills. Votes: 6

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves. Votes: 6

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority. Votes: 4

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority. Votes: 4

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. Votes: 4

The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little. Votes: 4

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals. Votes: 4

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman. Votes: 4

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him. Votes: 4

In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites. Votes: 4

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority. Votes: 4

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it. Votes: 4

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot. Votes: 4

Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority; you have none. Votes: 4

If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud. Votes: 4

Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and, therefore, as soon as it is a gathering, the impression changes - we see something abstract, the crowd, and we become different. But in the eyes of God, the infinite spirit, all the millions that have lived and now live do not make a crowd, He only sees each individual. Votes: 4

Superiority is always detested. Votes: 3

Biological Superiority: The World's Most Dangerous and Deadly Idea. Votes: 3

Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national. Votes: 3

Superiority - doing things a little better than anybody else can do them. Votes: 3

Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men. Votes: 3

Superiority to Fate Is difficult to gain 'Tis not conferred of Any But possible to earn. Votes: 3

Superiority and success doesn't favor good effort or self-esteem... The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

In every dream you pursue, you attract its respective version of opposition. Going back will not solve any problem; Regrets will not change anything either; Feeling of Superiority over every obstacle should be your priority! Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

But we are as other men, exactly. Of one blood, one species, one brain, one figure, one fundamental set of collective instincts, one solitary body of information, one everything. Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national. Votes: 3

There can be no such thing as Superiority when We Are All One. A thing cannot be superior to itself. All things are One Thing, and there is nothing else. When you understand this, you begin experiencing life - and treating each other - in a new way. Votes: 3

Superiority complex does not mean pride although it appears to be so in the eyes of those who want to see it so. When you feel a higher esteem over the obstacles you desire to surmount, you highly overcome them and can still count a reserved energy to spare! Votes: 3

Superiority complex does not mean "pride" although it appears to be so in the eyes of those who want to see it so. When you feel a higher esteem over the obstacles you desire to surmount, you highly overcome them and can still count a reserved energy to spare! Votes: 3

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality. Votes: 2

Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall. Votes: 2

Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority. Votes: 2

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting. Votes: 2

Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen. Votes: 2

Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival. Votes: 2

People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. Votes: 2

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority. Votes: 2

There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance. Votes: 2

She was not a white woman. She was not a Greek... Until the emergence of the doctrine of white superiority, Cleopatra was generally pictured as a distinctly African woman, dark in color. Votes: 2

The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority. Votes: 2

Many characters in the novel are representative of types that exist in India. He represents the caste system in India with an air of superiority, the caste system in India and the people thinking that western things are better. Votes: 2

White supremacy is the conscious or unconscious belief or the investment in the inherent superiority of some, while others are believed to be innately inferior. And it doesn't demand the individual participation of the singular bigot. It is a machine operating in perpetuity, because it doesn't demand that somebody be in place driving. Votes: 2

We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority. Votes: 2

Beauty is a natural superiority. Votes: 0

Tolerance is the assumption of superiority Votes: 0

There is no such thing as human superiority. Votes: 0

Cool superiority as a mask for overflowing insecurity. Votes: 0

All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority. Votes: 0

Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it. Votes: 0

Greater powers and resources do not guarantee tactical superiority. Votes: 0

One needs either equality or political and economic superiority. Votes: 0

A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority. Votes: 0

Air superiority is the ultimate expression of military power. Votes: 0

Eternal superiority of the Dandy. What is the Dandy? Votes: 0

I know no other sign of superiority than Goodness. Votes: 0

Strange, that certain superiority the goer-away feels for the stayer-at-home. Votes: 0

HATRED, n. A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority. Votes: 0

Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority ... Votes: 0

Everybody loves to find fault, it gives a feeling of superiority. Votes: 0

Atheism, a religion dedicated to its own sense of smug superiority. Votes: 0

But there are still people whose moral superiority defeats your own. Votes: 0

Selfless giving does not imply superiority. Selfless giving is about love. Votes: 0

The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority. Votes: 0

People often imagine that being hard to please confers a certain superiority. Votes: 0

A Christian is one who rejoices in the superiority of a rival. Votes: 0

There is no remedy but love for the great superiority of others Votes: 0

My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people. Votes: 0

As one by one I mowed them down, my superiority soon became apparent Votes: 0

Most do violence to their natural aptitude, and thus attain superiority in nothing. Votes: 0

Racism is a belief in the inherent superiority of one race over another. Votes: 0

Being six feet off the ground does give one a sense of superiority. Votes: 0

People incline to doubt the superiority of a person who will associate with them. Votes: 0

What can defeat greed, technological superiority, and legal lawlessness ... is discipline, consciousness, and unity. Votes: 0

He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him. Votes: 0

Atheism: the religion devoted to the worship of one's own smug sense of superiority. Votes: 0

The hardest thing to attain... is the appreciation of difference without insisting on superiority. Votes: 0

Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other. Votes: 0

I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority. Votes: 0

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't. Votes: 0

Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority; perfect equality affords no temptation. Votes: 0

Sometimes she couldn't tolerate a man's physical superiority. No wonder they were so damned macho. Votes: 0

The greatest threat to compassion is the temptation to succumb to fantasies of moral superiority. Votes: 0

If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique. Votes: 0

Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride. Votes: 0

The limitation prompting folly " was an attitude of superiority so dense as to be impenetrable. Votes: 0

To be loved, we should merit but little esteem; all superiority attracts awe and aversion. Votes: 0

Old among the young, poor among the rich, I adopt an air of indefinable superiority. Votes: 0

Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others. Votes: 0

Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. Votes: 0

The real objection to the great majority of cats is their insufferable air of superiority. Votes: 0

Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals. Votes: 0

We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to them. Votes: 0

Assumption of superiority by any person over any other is a sin against God and man. Votes: 0

I don't think I have a superiority complex. I have a "you're not Thom Yorke" complex. Votes: 0

Air superiority is a condition for all operations, at sea, in land, and in the air. Votes: 0

The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority. Votes: 0

Unwittingly, the feminists acknowledge the superiority of the male sex by wishing to become like men. Votes: 0

What gives people superiority at a task is true intention. That makes you attuned to everything. Votes: 0

The superiority...enjoyed by nations that have...perfected a branch of industry, constitutes a...formidable obstacle. Votes: 0

Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America. Votes: 0

Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible. Votes: 0

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority. Votes: 0

All the distinctive features and superiority of our republican institutions are derived from the teachings of Scripture. Votes: 0

The worst reason to do magic is the desire to display your superiority to your fellow humans. Votes: 0

Let no man, in whatever rank or superiority, control your mind and tell you what to do Votes: 0

What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading. Votes: 0

What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading. Votes: 0

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: this triptych succinctly defines the attractiveness and superiority of Western civilization. Votes: 0

Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority. Votes: 0

To be mediocre, when only application and diligence would have netted superiority, is an error akin to sin. Votes: 0

Whatever the scenario, the dynamism of developing nations, their demographics and competitive power are great sources for superiority. Votes: 0

Past has a very great superiority over the future: The future may not exist; but the past existed! Votes: 0

The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belonged to intellectual superiority. Votes: 0

The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority. Votes: 0

Tally, do you ever suffer from sudden flashes of anger or euphoria, countersocial impulses, or feelings of superiority? Votes: 0

It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others. Votes: 0

When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke. Votes: 0

Don't show your inferiority by climbing a stunted tree, show your superiority by climbing the longest and crooked one. Votes: 0

What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers. Votes: 0

Numerical superiority is of no consequence. In battle, victory will go to the best tactician."- G. A. Custer Votes: 0

I think that the solution of the question of numerical superiority of Russian conventional forces has to be solved. Votes: 0

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact. Votes: 0

There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel. Votes: 0

The British suffer from a most unfortunate superiority complex - unjustified even under Victoria and most certainly hopelessly out-of-date today. Votes: 0

Be kind; you're only here for a while. No sense of superiority, just do things for others. It's really fun. Votes: 0

What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy. Votes: 0

The superiority of the gold standard consists in the fact that the value of gold develops independent of political actions. Votes: 0

There was, I think, never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle. Votes: 0

Spiritual superiority [consists in] deep dedication ... in the form of the most rigorous training, as commitment, resistance, solitude, and love. Votes: 0

The very notion of superiority of one kind over another will have to disappear, although differences among kind will remain. Votes: 0

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal. Votes: 0

The superiority of the American system is eloquently proved by the pressure of people who want to crash our borders. Votes: 0

I would rather have an inferiority complex and be pleasantly surprised, than have a superiority complex and be rudely awakened. Votes: 0

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal Votes: 0

The visible imperfections of hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or both. Votes: 0

Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected. Votes: 0

Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others. Votes: 0

The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other country. Votes: 0

Teach your children not to strive for high self-esteem. This is nothing less than teaching them arrogance, conceit and superiority feelings. Votes: 0

The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation. Votes: 0

Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well? Votes: 0

Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilisation reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well? Votes: 0

The economic disasters of socialism and communism come from assuming a blanket superiority of those who want to run a whole economy. Votes: 0

By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority. Votes: 0

To keep hope alive one must, in spite of all mistakes, horrors, and crimes, recognize the obvious superiority of the socialist camp. Votes: 0

There is always the fear of self-righteousness possessing us, the fear of arrogating to ourselves a superiority that we do not possess. Votes: 0

Air control can be established by superiority in numbers, by better employment, by better equipment, or by a combination of these factors. Votes: 0

I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighboring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded air of superiority. Votes: 0

Where absolute superiority is not attainable, you must produce a relative one at the decisive point by making skillful use ofwhat you have. Votes: 0

Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other. Votes: 0

Remember you don't own people, let them decide, choose and live. There is no inferiority and superiority; it is just your crazy imagination. Votes: 0

The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority. Votes: 0

Racism is the dogma that one ethnic group is condemned by nature to congenital inferiority and another group is destined to congenital superiority. Votes: 0

We may assume the superiority ceteris paribus of the demonstration which derives from fewer postulates or hypotheses - in short, from fewer premises. Votes: 0

A gazelle runs faster than us; cockroaches are remarkably tolerant of radiation; every being has some superiority; in remembering this, be very humble! Votes: 0

The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination. Votes: 0

If it were ever allowable to forget what is due to superiority of rank, it would be when the privileged themselves remember it. Votes: 0

The need to compile lists is a personality disorder, as is the need to assert the superiority of some things over other things. Votes: 0

It must always be borne in mind that the assumption of woman's social superiority lies at the root of these rules of conduct. Votes: 0

If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class. Votes: 0

Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority. Votes: 0

I never call them 'guys;' I always call them 'boys.' Maybe it's a superiority complex - my needing to keep them down. Votes: 0

Conservatism is not about tradition and morality, hasn't been for many decades... It is about the putative biological and spiritual superiority of the wealthy. Votes: 0

Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark... Votes: 0

I reject the idea that humans are superior to other life forms. . . Man is just an ape with an overly developed sense of superiority. Votes: 0

The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself. Votes: 0

Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation. Votes: 0

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude. Votes: 0

If we are to understand anything of the human mind we must approach the people of the past with humility rather than an overconfident superiority. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Arrogance is an illusion of superiority one perpetrates upon their self. Some may ultimately find their way through the illusion, but only after many losses. Votes: 0

I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer. Votes: 0

Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feeling of moral superiority while asking nothing in return. Votes: 0

The more wit you have, the more good nature you must show, to induce people to pardon your superiority, for that is no easy matter. Votes: 0

Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The Germans are indeed the economically and politically strongest power in Europe. But their superiority does not equal the past and present superiority of the Americans. Votes: 0

I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy superiority). Votes: 0

...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. Votes: 0

A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon. Votes: 0

How seldom is generosity perfect and pure! How often do men give because it throws a certain inferiority on those who receive, and superiority on themselves! Votes: 0

Possibly when the professor insisted a little too emphatically upon the inferiority of women, he was concerned not with their inferiority, but with his own superiority. Votes: 0

The women are very important too, we can't have a revolution that doesn't involve and liberate women. It's so subtle the way you're taught male superiority. Votes: 0

The neutron warhead is a defensive weapon designed to offset the great superiority that the Soviet Union has on the western front against the NATO nations. Votes: 0

The critics can say stupid things and we can enjoy them, if we have the legitimate feeling of superiority - the satisfaction of a duty accomplished. Votes: 0

There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. There was no nationalistic, political or ethnic superiority to be thankful for. Votes: 0

I can be free only to the extent that others are forbidden to profit from their physical, economic, or other superiority to the detriment of my liberty. Votes: 0

To use a fighter as a fighter-bomber when the strength of the fighter arm is inadequate to achieve air superiority is putting the cart before the horse. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Talents give a man a superiority far more agreeable than that which proceeds from riches, birth, or employments, which are all external. Talents constitute our very essence. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If I were asked ... to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of Americans ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women. Votes: 0

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate. Votes: 0

Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third. Votes: 0

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance. Votes: 0

Whether splendidly isolated or dangerously isolated, I will not now debate; but for my part, I think splendidly isolated, because the isolation of England comes from her superiority. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

No man has a right in America to treat any other man "tolerantly" for tolerance is the assumption of superiority. Our liberties are equal rights of every citizen. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

The superiority of the Greeks seems not so much the result of climate and society, as of the simplicity of their end and the uniformity of their means. Votes: 0

It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else. Votes: 0

One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human beings. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human biengs. Votes: 0

Smiley Bone: You can't feel safe unless there's something to be safe against! Phoney Bone: Exactly! People like to be victims! There's a certain unassailable moral superiority about it... Votes: 0

It's very easy for us to be humble when no one else is around. There is no reason for us to demonstrate our superiority, because no one challenges it. Votes: 0

To be ethical is to endeavor to find one's proper place in the larger scheme of things rather than to seek to assert human superiority over the natural world. Votes: 0

There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess. Votes: 0

The harmony of natural law reveals an Intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection. Votes: 0

He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You don't play a game or color a picture with a child to show your superiority. Rather, you choose to limit yourself so as to facilitate and honor that relationship. Votes: 0

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' Votes: 0

The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that is seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilized cynic to do other than to worship it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it. Votes: 0

A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with severe superiority on all feminine assumption as unbecoming. Votes: 0

Victory is plesant, not only to those who love to conquer, bot to all; for there is produced an idea of superiority, which all with more or less eagerness desire. Votes: 0

The sun as the expression of old world energy is torn down from the heavens by modern man, who by virtue of his technological superiority creates his own energy source. Votes: 0

I look back on my liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe. Votes: 0

Our knowledge and understanding of nonhuman animals is polluted far more than we acknowledge by our belief in our own superiority, our unrecognized cultural programming, and our separation from nature. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In feudal times the aristocracy had sent their sons to university, conferring superiority on the institution. Nowadays it was the other way round: the university conferred superiority on the man. Votes: 0

In feudal times the aristocracy had sent their sons to university, conferring superiority on the institution. Nowadays it was the other way round: the university conferred superiority on the man." Votes: 0

I look back upon my Liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe. Votes: 0

Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming one's superiority in the face of one's diminished influence. Votes: 0

The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in their psychical - they were more complete human beings... Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The very thought of such people's intolerant worldview, their inflated sense of self superiority, and their callous imposition of their own beliefs on others was enough to fill her with rage." Votes: 0

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do something more than they do, whereby his superiority may be apparent. Votes: 0

Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one. Votes: 0

Though men of delicate taste be rare, they are easily to be distinguished in society by the soundness of their understanding, and the superiority of their faculties above the rest of mankind. Votes: 0

The business of the endgame is maneuvring to control critical squares, advancing or blockading passed pawns, preparing a breakthrough by the king, or exploiting the subtle superiority of one piece over another. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The Internet lets women use words, which is their natural tool. Little girls speak in more complex, grammatical sentences than little boys do, and women never lose that superiority in verbal ability. Votes: 0

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other. Votes: 0

I think we're insecure about our self-imposed spot at the top of the pyramid of life. New studies are continually undermining our superiority complex and forcing us to reconsider our relationship to animals. Votes: 0

The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and the colored man is no longer willing to endure his inferiority. Votes: 0

As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself. Votes: 0

Intellectuals ... advertise their superiority to political practice but are absolutely in its thrall. ... It is no accident that Marxist theory and practice use the intellectuals as tools and keep them in brutal subservience. Votes: 0

I don't wish to treat you like an inferior: that is (correcting himself), I claim only such superiority as must result from twenty years' difference in age and a century's advance in experience. Votes: 0

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion ["] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Conscious minds can, at the most, comprehend that the whole idea of a 'God' is his superiority, his omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience; and therefore, at the least, desire him, someone far greater than themselves. Votes: 0

Disarmament should be conducive to the enhancement of every country's general security instead of becoming the instrument and means for a few countries to strengthen their military superiority by weakening or restricting other countries. Votes: 0

The fact is, the most painful and tragic lesson of the 20th century was that regimes based on racial superiority and religious hatred can't be trusted to keep their word to the international community. Votes: 0

Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses. Votes: 0

The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can achieve our objective at the conference table, and deny the aggressor theirs. Votes: 0

The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture. Votes: 0

The French were generous in giving us assistance in corps and army artillery, with its personnel, and we were confident from the start of our superiority over the enemy in guns of all calibers. Votes: 0

We will convert the entire world to Islam with our logic. We are confident that the Islamic logic, culture, and discourse can prove their superiority in all fields over all schools of thought and theories. Votes: 0

Another powerful principle of our nature, which is the spring of war, is the passion for superiority, for triumph, for power. The human mind is aspiring, impatient of inferiority, and eager for preeminence and control. Votes: 0

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood. Votes: 0

Though I would have liked my chances in a rematch in 1998 if I were better prepared, it was clear then that computer superiority over humans in chess had always been just a matter of time. Votes: 0

Fashion understands itself; good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever country readily fraternize with those of every other. The chiefs of savage tribes have distinguished themselves in London and Paris, by the purity of their tournure. Votes: 0