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• After an inferior man has been taught a doctrine of superiority he will remain as inferior as he was before his lesson. He will merely assume himself to be superior, and attempt to employ his recently-learned tactics against his own kind, whom he will then consider his inferiors. With each inferior man enjoying what he considers his unique role, the entire bunch will be reduced to a pack of strutting, foppish, self-centered monkeys gamboling about on an island of ignorance. There they will play their games under the supervision of their keeper, who was and always will be a superior man.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Ignorance, Unique, Men

  Anton Szandor LaVey (2000). “The Devil's Notebook”, p.143, Feral House

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• Politics, under a democracy, reduces itself to a mere struggle for office by flatterers of the proletariat; even when a superior man prevails at that disgusting game he must prevail at the cost of his self-respect. Not many superior men make the attempt. The average great captain of the rabble, when he is not simply a weeper over irremediable wrongs, is a hypocrite so far gone that he is unconscious of his own hypocrisy.. a slimy fellow, offensive to the nose.

  H. L. Mencken

  Struggle, Hypocrite, Men

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• I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty. If ever a man is to achieve anything like dignity, it can happen only if superior men are given absolute freedom to think what they want to think and say what they want to say. I am against any man and any organization which seeks to limit or deny that freedom... [and] the superior man can be sure of freedom only if it is given to all men.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Believe, Men

  "Letters of H. L. Mencken". Book edited by Guy J. Forgue, 1961.

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• I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty. If ever a man is to achieve anything like dignity, it can happen only if superior men are given absolute freedom to think what they want to think and say what they want to say. I am against any man and any organization which seeks to limit or deny that freedom ... the superior man can be sure of freedom only if it is given to all men.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Thinking, Want

  Letters of H. L. Mencken edited by Guy J. Forgue (p. xiii)., 1961.

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• Any society which is not improving is deteriorating, and the more so the closer and more familiar it is. Even a really superior man almost always begins to deteriorate when he is habitually king of his company.

  John Stuart Mill

  Kings, Men, Progress

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.499, Oxford University Press, USA

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• In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relive the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption.

  Tom Robbins

  Men, Artist, Order

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.215, Bantam

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• I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Running, Men, Office

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• The superior man is not seeking fulfillment through work and woman, because he is already full. For him, work and intimacy are opportunities to give his gifts, and to be vanished in the bliss of giving.

  David Deida

  Opportunity, Men, Giving

  David Deida (2008). “The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.47, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

  H. L. Mencken

  Character, Men, Honor

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.111, Vintage

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• The mass of men lead lives of shallow happiness; the superior man exults in his gloom.

  Garrison Keillor

  Happiness, Men, Shallow

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• The superior man, while his parents are alive, reverently nourishes them; and, when they are dead, reverently sacrifices to them. His thought to the end of his life is how not to disgrace them.

  Confucius

  Sacrifice, Men, Parent

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• Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand.

  Confucius

  Integrity, Men, Morality

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• The superior man is intelligently, not blindly, faithful.

  Confucius

  Army, Men, Faithful

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• The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass; the grass, when the wind passes over it, bends.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Wind, Common

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.412, Delphi Classics

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• The superior man is firm in the right way and not merely firm.

  Confucius

  Men, Purpose, Way

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• You are not only a man, you are a superior man: a man who does his best to live as love in the world and in his intimacy, a man whose heart remains open and whose truth remains strong.

  David Deida

  Strong, Heart, Men

  David Deida (2008). “The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.77, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous, he is free from anxiety; being wise, he is free from perplexity; being brave, he is free from fear.

  Confucius

  Wise, Men, Bravery

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• All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: it's one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him... One of its primary functions is to regiment men by force, to make them as much alike as possible and as dependent upon one another as possible, to search out and combat originality among them.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Essence, Originality

  "Prejudices: Third Series (Le Contrat Social)". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1922.

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• If a superior man abandon virtue, how can he fulfil the requirements of that name?

  Confucius

  Men, Names, Virtue

  Confucius, Mencius (1861). “The Chinese Classics”

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• The superior man is universally minded and no partisan. The inferior man is a partisan and not universal.

  Confucius

  Character, Men, Partisans

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• The superior man is quiet and calm, waiting for the appointments of heaven, while the mean man walks in dangerous paths, looking for lucky occurrences.

  Confucius

  Mean, Men, Waiting

  James Legge, Confucius, Mencius, Shih ching (1867). “The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius”, p.291

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• Cuvier had even in his address & manner the character of a superior Man, much general power & eloquence in conversation & great variety of information on scientific as well as popular subjects. I should say of him that he is the most distinguished man of talents I have ever known on the continent: but I doubt if He be entitled to the appellation of a Man of Genius.

  Humphry Davy

  Character, Science, Men

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• All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Essence, Conspiracy

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.145, Vintage

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