Inferiority Complex Quotes - Page 3

• Bond always mistrusted short men. They grew up from childhood with an inferiority complex. All their lives they would strive to be big - bigger than the others who had teased them as a child. Napoleon had been short, and Hitler. It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.

  Ian Fleming

  Children, Men, Childhood

  Ian Fleming (1992). “Goldfinger”, Chivers North Amer

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• One of the marked superiorities the English enjoy over other peoples is their ability to imbue the foreigner with a crippling inferiority complex the moment he sets foot on British soil.

  Pierre Daninos

  Feet, Inferiority, Soil

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• The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

  John C. Calhoun

  Life, Inferiority, Surrender

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• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Recovery, Animal, Intelligent

  Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.264, Univ of California Press

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• When an individual (or a group of individuals) is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he is inferior.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Feminism, Doe, Inferiority

  "Nature of the second sex".

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• Cats will amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw.

  Terry Pratchett

  Cat, Tin, Paws

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• Surround yourself with positive people.

  Melanie

  Inspirational, Positive, Jealousy

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

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Men, Inferiority, Males

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Humility, Perfect

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Weight of Glory”, p.38, Harper Collins

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• The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment, and in the uninterrupted struggle both of individuals and humanity.

  Alfred Adler

  Life, Struggle, Feelings

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• I have an inferiority complex, but it’s not a very good one.

  Steven Wright

  Inferiority, Very Good, Complexes

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