Superiority Complex Quotes

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

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Sarcastic, Honesty, Humility

  Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.163, Sophia Institute Press

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

  Vanna Bonta

  Inferiority, Complexes, Awakened

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• The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

  Leonard Cohen

  Sleep, Insomnia, World

  Leonard Cohen (2003). “The Favorite Game: A Novel”, Vintage Books

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

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Change, Years, Wish

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• 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.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Simple, Men

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.169, Modern Library

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• A what? (Fang) Badass demon with a superiority complex who picks his teeth with bones of infants. Let’s just keep it simple and say he’s a demon I want out of the human realm. ASAP. (Thorn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Badass, Simple, Teeth

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Bad Moon Rising”, p.85, Hachette UK

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• 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.

  Jonathan Balcombe

  Insecure, Thinking, Animal

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• I feel that when a white child goes to school only with white children, unconsciously that child grows up in many instances devoid of a world perspective. There is an unconscious provincialism, and it can develop into an unconscious superiority complex just as a Negro develops an unconscious inferiority complex.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Children, Growing Up, School

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• One Chief Astronaut used to make a point of phoning the front desk at the clinic where applicants are sent for medical testing, to find out which ones treated the staff well-and which ones stood out in a bad way. The nurses and clinic staff have seen a whole lot of astronauts over the years, and they know what the wrong stuff looks like. A person with a superiority complex might unwittingly, right there in the waiting room, quash his or her chances of ever going to space.

  Chris Hadfield

  Space, Waiting Rooms, Years

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• I know what cancer was. How is it like humankind?" Sek Hardeen's perfectly modulated, softly accented tones showed a hint of agitation. "We have spread out through the galaxy like cancer cells through a living body, Duré. We multiply without thought to the countless life forms that must die or be pushed aside so that we may breed and flourish. We eradicate competing forms of intelligent life.

  Dan Simmons

  Cancer, Intelligent, Cells

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.1086, Spectra

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

  George Mikes

  Funny, Humorous, Suffering

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

  Thom Yorke

  Thinking, Complexes, Superiority

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• I have a strong army I keep with me and we don't go out there looking for problems. A lot of people have this perception... but I don't have a superiority complex about me because I'm from New York or because I'm Peruvian/Black. I think some people get caught up in that stuff.

  Immortal Technique

  Strong, New York, Army

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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