Inferiors Quotes - Page 12

• Beings are owners of their actions, heirs of their actions; they originate from their actions, are bound to their actions, have their actions as their refuge. It is action that distinguishes beings as inferior and superior.

  Gautama Buddha

  Heirs, Action, Owners

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• I think gender inequality is a problem that goes back a long, long time. In human society, as a whole, women have tended to have a kind of inferior position - very often combined with playing up women as great role [models].

  Amartya Sen

  Thinking, Long, Role Models

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Since the introduction of inanimate mechanism into British manufactories, man, with few exceptions, has been treated as a secondary and inferior machine; and far more attention has been given to perfect the raw materials of wood and metals than those of body and mind.

  Robert Owen

  Men, Perfect, Mind

  Robert Owen (1837). “Essays on the Formation of the Human Character”, p.29

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• A carbonated wine foisted upon Americans (who else would drink it?) by winery ad agencies as a way of getting rid of inferior champagne by mixing it with inferior burgundy.

  John Ciardi

  Food, Wine, Agency

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• I've never been put down by a man, unless I deserved it, and have never felt inferior.

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Men, Felt

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• Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?

  Rachel Carson

  Vision, Demand, Accepting

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I repeat that superior races have a right [to establish colonies], because they have a duty. They have the duty to civilize inferior races.

  Jules Ferry

  Race, Duty, Colony

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• Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote.

  Louise Slaughter

  Men, Rights, Ideas

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• We now have cultural machines so powerful that one singer can reach everybody in the world, and make all the other singers feel inferior because they're not like him. Once that gets started, he gets backed by so much cash and so much power that he becomes a monstrous invader from outer space, crushing the life out of all the other human possibilities. My life has been devoted to opposing that tendency.

  Alan Lomax

  Crush, Powerful, Space

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• When they took TV to Fiji they found that after 3 years nearly 12 girls out of 100 were over the toilet bowls with bulimia because they felt inferior.

  Susie Orbach

  Girl, Years, Tvs

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• Psychiatrist to patient: Maybe you don't have a complex. Maybe you are inferior.

  Herbert Stein

  Modern Life, Patient, Psychiatrist

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• The rights of citizenship will be taken away from all Jews and other non-Aryans. They are inferior and therefore enemies of the state. It is the duty of all true Aryans to hate and despise them.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Hate, Taken, Rights

  "Fictional character: Garbitsch". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.

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• He who is conversant with the supernal powers will not worship these inferior deities of the wind, waves, tide, and sunshine. Butwe would not disparage the importance of such calculations as we have described. They are truths in physics because they are true in ethics.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Science, Sunshine

  Henry David Thoreau (2007). “My Thoughts Are Murder to the State: Thoreau's Essays on Political Philosophy”, p.140, David M Gross

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• Are you not justified in feeling inferior, when you seek to cover it up with arrogance and insolence?

  Malcolm Forbes

  Feelings, Arrogance, Justified

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• I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments of both body and mind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Race, Racism, Mind

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private”, p.386

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• The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference between their methods is so marked that it is tempting, but also unnecessary, to judge one to be inferior to the other. Johnson was robust, combative, and concrete; Coleridge was the opposite. The contrast was perhaps in his mind when he said of Johnson: "his bow-wow manner must have had a good deal to do with the effect produced.

  Virginia Woolf

  Opposites, Differences, Judging

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3815, Delphi Classics

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• Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior sanctity.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Rome, Two, Church

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2506, Delphi Classics

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• The smartest people in Washington are the political reporters. They write about their inferiors.

  Joseph Heller

  Writing, Media, People

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• A beautiful smile is to the female countenance what the sunbeam is to the landscape; it embellishes an inferior face and redeems an ugly one.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Beautiful, Female, Ugly

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• Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Inspire, Mind, Superstitions

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• The rationale which accompanies that imposition of male authority euphemistically referred to as 'the battle of the sexes' bears a certain resemblance to the formulas of nations at war, where any heinousness is justified on the grounds that the enemy is either an inferior [part of the] species or really not human at all.

  Kate Millett

  Sex, War, Enemy

  Kate Millett (2016). “Sexual Politics”, p.46, Columbia University Press

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• We can all perceive the difference between ourselves and our inferiors, but when it comes to a question of the difference between us and our superiors we fail to appreciate merits of which we have no proper conceptions.

  James F. Cooper

  Differences, Appreciate, Merit

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• the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as simply an inferior and rather second-rate sort of corporation.

  Margaret Halsey

  Government, Quality, Ashes

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• There is no such thing as a 'superior' or 'inferior' culture, there are only various cultural patterns which make up this beautiful, multicolored mosaic.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Beautiful, Mosaics, Culture

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• We live surrounded by white images, and white in this world is synonymous with the good, light, beauty, success, so that, despite ourselves sometimes, we run after that whiteness and deny our darkness, which has been made into the symbol of all that is evil and inferior.

  Paule Marshall

  Running, White Privilege, Light

  Paule Marshall (1983). “Reena and Other Stories”, p.79, Feminist Press at CUNY

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