Superiority Quotes

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

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

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.

The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the "mob" - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.

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.

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.

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

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