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• The utopia of the Populists was in the past, not in the future. According to the agrarian myth, the health of the state was proportionate to the degree to which it was dominated by the agricultural class, and this assumption pointed to the superiority of an earlier age.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Past, Class, Age

  Richard Hofstadter (2011). “The Age of Reform”, p.62, Vintage

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• There is no substitute for skill. It is the priceless possession of every great artist in every field of endeavor. It is instinctly felt by an audience and is reflected in the superiority of his work

  Paul LePaul

  Artist, Skills, Fields

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• Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America.

  Camille Paglia

  America, Taste, Academic

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.8, Vintage

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• The superiority of the Greeks seems not so much the result of climate and society, as of the simplicity of their end and the uniformity of their means.

  Henry Fuseli

  Mean, Simplicity, Greek

  1789 Aphorisms on Art, no.148 (published 1831).

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• I normally can't stand vice-free people. They conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. Plus, they suck the life right out of a party.

  Dennis Lehane

  Party, Self, People

  "Moonlight Mile". Book by Dennis Lehane, November 2, 2010.

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• I think that the solution of the question of numerical superiority of Russian conventional forces has to be solved.

  Helmut Schmidt

  Thinking, Force, Conventional

  "War and Peace in the Nuclear Age". "Zero Hour", openvault.wgbh.org. 1987.

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• Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority; perfect equality affords no temptation.

  Thomas Paine

  Class, Perfect, Temptation

  Thomas Paine, Bruce Kuklick (2000). “Paine: Political Writings”, p.26, Cambridge University Press

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• God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, and the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in his arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; he will set them above their betters.

  H. L. Mencken

  Ego, Sanctuary, Arms

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• I can be free only to the extent that others are forbidden to profit from their physical, economic, or other superiority to the detriment of my liberty.

  Emile Durkheim

  Liberty, Economic, Profit

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• Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the earth wherever you appear and leave an ignoble trail behind you -- and that is true, alas, for almost every one of us!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Pride, Greatness, Men

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2003). “Brothers Karamazov”, p.427, Bantam Classics

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• Do they hate the idea of her, because she's different from them, and that in this difference there might be some sort of inferiority or superiority that is hers or theirs, that in the end threatens the potential happiness of everyone?

  Steven Galloway

  Hate, Ideas, Differences

  Steven Galloway (2009). “The Cellist of Sarajevo”, p.90, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• As a society, you were unwilling to reflect upon the shared pain that united you with those who attacked you. You retreated into myths of your own difference, assumptions of your own superiority. And you acted out these beliefs on the stage of the world, so that the entire planet was rocked by the repercussions of your tantrums, not least my family, now facing war thousands of miles away.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Pain, War, Differences

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.168, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The question of whether one alleges the Superiority or Inferiority of any given race is irrelevant; racism has only one psychological root: the racist's sense of his own Inferiority.

  Ayn Rand

  Race, Roots, Racism

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.149, Penguin

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• Cool superiority as a mask for overflowing insecurity.

  Deb Caletti

  Insecurity, Mask

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• Every time I asked a question, that magnificent teacher, instead of giving the answer, showed me how to find it. She taught me to organise my thoughts, to do research, to read and listen, to seek alternatives, to resolve old problems with new solutions, to argue logically. Above all, she taught me not to believe anything blindly, to doubt, and to question even what seemed irrefutably true, such as man's superiority over woman, or one race or social class over another.

  Isabel Allende

  Teacher, Believe, Men

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• Men were created before women. ... But that doesn't prove their superiority – rather, it proves ours, for they were born out of the lifeless earth in order that we could be born out of living flesh. And what's so important about this priority in creation, anyway? When we are building, we lay foundations on the ground first, things of no intrinsic merit or beauty, before subsequently raising up sumptuous buildings and ornate palaces. Lowly seeds are nourished in the earth, and then later the ravishing blooms appear; lovely roses blossom forth and scented narcissi.

  Moderata Fonte

  Flower, Men, Order

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• People always make the mistake of thinking art is created for them. But really, art is a private language for sophisticates to congratulate themselves on their superiority to the rest of the world. As my artist’s statement explains, my work is utterly incomprehensible and is therefore full of deep significance.

  Bill Watterson

  Art, Mistake, Thinking

  "It's a Magical World". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1996.

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• Being six feet off the ground does give one a sense of superiority.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Feet, Giving, Doe

  Megan Whalen Turner (2009). “The Thief”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• Then he is a monster!" the Prince crowed, "and I must slay him at once. The Formula works!" "Your Formula must result in a great deal of fighting," I mused. "Oh, yes, when applied correctly mighty and noble battles result! Of course I always win—the value of Prince X is a constant. It cannot be lesser than that of Monster Y—this is the Moral Superiority Hypothesis made famous five hundred years ago by my ancestor Ethelred, the Mathematician-King. We have never seen his equal, in all these centuries.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Kings, Fighting, Winning

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• Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.

  George Eliot

  Mistake, Animal, Men

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.388, Penguin

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• Dissimulation, secretiveness, appear a necessity to the melancholic. He has complex, often veiled relations with others. These feelings of superiority, of inadequacy, of baffled feeling, of not being able to get what one wants, or even name it properly (or consistently) to oneself — these can be, it is felt they ought to be, masked by friendliness, or the most scrupulous manipulation.

  Susan Sontag

  Names, Feelings, Want

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• That's right... I never felt a sense of superiority because I could see spirits. And I never once thought that I could make a living or help someone with it. I just longed for a life where I couldn't see them. And I finally got what I always wanted.

  Tite Kubo

  Spirit, Helping, Wanted

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• A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.

  Victor Hugo

  Jesus, Light, Two

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

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• I just can't see either a man or a woman in a dependency position, because from this sort of relationship flows a feeling of superiority on one side and inferiority on the other, and that's a form of slow poison. As I see it, men wouldn't want somebody inferior to them unless they felt inadequate themselves. They're intimidated by a mature woman.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Men, Feelings, Sides

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• When I said that I am the Buddha, the Christ, the Lord Maitreya, and more, it was not a question of superiority or inferiority. I added that phrase 'and more' very carefully, because I knew that people had a very limited understanding of the Buddha and the Christ, and hence if I said: 'I am the Christ, the Buddha', they would limit that Reality to their own conceptions of the Buddha or the Christ, and Life has no limit.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Reality, People, Understanding

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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