Superiority Quotes - Page 15

• People incline to doubt the superiority of a person who will associate with them.

  Mary Catherwood

  People, Doubt, Persons

  Mary Hartwell Catherwood (2012). “Lazarre”, p.368, tredition

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• As soon as we climb higher than those who had at one time admired us, we appear to them as though we have sunken and fallen down:for, in any event, they had at one time supposed that they were with us (even if it were through us) on the heights.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Events, Height, Fallen

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• Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is not slave: you are the slave: he not only in his humility feels his superiority, feels that much deplored condition of his to be a fading trifle, but he makes you feel it too. He is the master.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Humility, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.258

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• The terrorism of the suicide bomber and the terrorism of aerial bombardment are indeed morally equivalent. To say otherwise (as either side might) is to give one moral superiority over the other, and thus serve to perpetuate the horrors of our time.

  Howard Zinn

  Suicide, Giving, Bombers

  "Letters: On Terror", www.nytimes.com. August 19, 2007.

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• If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique.

  Bertrand Russell

  Technique, West, Claims

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.76, Routledge

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• A gazelle runs faster than us; cockroaches are remarkably tolerant of radiation; every being has some superiority; in remembering this, be very humble!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Running, Humble, Cockroaches

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• If you want to enter into a state of pure connection with your child, you can achieve this by setting aside any sense of superiority.

  Shefali Tsabary

  Children, Connections, Want

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• He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. He must take to pieces the whole web of his mind. He must unlearn much of that knowledge which has perhaps constituted hitherto his chief title to superiority. His very talents will be a hindrance to him.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Children, Poetry, Mind

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• The Greeks put us to shame not only by their simplicity, which is foreign to our age; they are at the same time our rivals, nay, frequently our models, in those very points of superiority from which we seek comfort when regretting the unnatural character of our manners. We see that remarkable people uniting at once fullness of form and fullness of substance, both philosophising and creating, both tender and energetic, uniting a youthful fancy to the virility of reason in a glorious humanity.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Regret, Character, Creating

  Friedrich Schiller (2017). “Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller”, p.45, Litres

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• Women have a hard time of it in this world. They are oppressed by man-made laws, man-made social customs, masculine egoism, the delusion of masculine superiority. Their one comfort is the assurance that, even though it may be impossible to prevail against man, it is always possible to enslave and torture a man.

  H. L. Mencken

  Women, Hard Times, Law

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.40, Vintage

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• Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits.

  Mason Cooley

  Powerful, Merit, Undefined

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• Old among the young, poor among the rich, I adopt an air of indefinable superiority.

  Mason Cooley

  Air, Rich, Behavior

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• I think I'm a very good driver. Apparently, the cause of road rage - as with most anger - is some kind of superiority complex, which, god knows, cars foster.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Thinking, Car, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The mere size of the brain has been proved to be no measure of superiority. The woman has greater moral courage than the man; she has also special gifts which enable her to govern in moments of danger and crisis. If necessary she can become a warrior.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Warrior, Men, Brain

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• In my vast experience, I've found it always wiser to go along with female advice... First, you make them happy by doing what they tell you. That's the main thing. Let them think they're in control. They love it. Then, if it turns out they were right, everything's cool. If it turns out they were wrong... then you have the pleasure of basking in the glow of superiority.

  Richard Laymon

  Thinking, Advice, Female

  "The Stake".

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• What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.

  Marie Corelli

  Laughter, Thinking, Laughing

  Marie Corelli (2015). “The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance”, p.31, The Floating Press

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• For my victory over Capablanca I am indebted primarily to my superiority in the field of psychology. Capablanca played, relying almost exclusively on his rich intuitive talent. But for the chess struggle nowadays one needs a subtle knowledge of human nature, an understanding of the opponent's psychology.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Struggle, Psychology, Understanding

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• Everybody felt his superiority, but nobody felt oppressed by it. Though he had no illusions about people and human affairs, he was full of kindness toward everybody and everything. Never did he give the impression of domineering, always of serving and helping. He was extremely conscientious, without allowing anything to assume undue importance; a subtle humor guarded him, which was reflected in his eyes and in his smile.

  Albert Einstein

  Kindness, Eye, People

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.76, Broadway Books

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• Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mother, Sex, Children

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• There is no law by which to determine the superiority of nations; hence the vanity of the claim, and the idleness of disputes about it. A people risen, run their race, and die either of themselves or at the hands of another, who, succeeding to their power, take possession of their place, and upon their monuments write new names; such is history.

  Lew Wallace

  Running, Writing, Vanity

  "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ".

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• The superiority of the American system is eloquently proved by the pressure of people who want to crash our borders.

  William Feather

  People, Borders, Want

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• In a world rife with unsolicited messages, typography must often draw attention to itself before it will be read. Yet in order to be read, it must relinquish the attention it has drawn. Typography with anything to say therefore aspires to a kind of statuesque transparency. It's other traditional goal is durability: not immunity to change, but a clear superiority to fashion. Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Fashion, Order, Goal

  "The Elements of Typographic Style". Book by Robert Bringhurst, www.theguardian.com. 1992.

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• By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority.

  Gene Sharp

  Struggle, Mean, Violent

  Gene Sharp (2010). “From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation”, p.5, Albert Einstein Institution

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• It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its foundations among his people, he never had the illusion that it conferred any moral superiority. He knew French, British, and Spanish imperialists for the insatiable gangsters that they were, that there is no oath too sacred for them to break, no crime, deception, treachery, cruelty, destruction of human life and property which they would not commit against those who could not defend themselves.

  C. L. R. James

  People, Deception, Sacred

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• The secret of the superiority of state over private education lies in the fact
  that in the former the teacher is responsible to society ... [T]he result
  desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents,
  guardians, and pupils.

  Lester Frank Ward

  Teacher, Lying, Parent

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