Superiority Quotes - Page 3

• There is scarce any passion so heartily decried by moralists and satirists, as AMBITION; and yet, methinks, ambition is not a vice but in a vicious mind: in a virtuous mind it is a virtue, and will be found to take its color from the character in which it is mixed. Ambition is a desire of superiority; and a man may become superior, either by making others less or himself greater.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Passion, Ambition, Character

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• Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.

  Samuel Johnson

  Jealousy, Envy, Your Jealous

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.128

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• Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

  Philip Wylie

  Inferiority, Individual

  "Generation of Vipers". Book by Philip Wylie, 1942.

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• Brains are still unfashionable for women to wear, and it has always been proof of women's superiority that the more intelligent a man is, the more women admire him, while the bigger fool a woman is, the more men run after her.

  Dorothea Dix

  Running, Intelligent, Men

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• Imitate until you emulate; match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Thankful

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• The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

  Confucius

  Money, Business, Philosophical

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius,

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• The visible imperfections of hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or both.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Mistake, Errors, Hands

  Thorstein Veblen (1965). “The Theory of the Leisure Class”, p.115, Transaction Publishers

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• War! When I but think of this word, I feel bewildered, as though they were speaking to me of sorcery, of the Inquisition, of a distant, finished, abominable, monstrous, unnatural thing. When they speak to us of cannibals, we smile proudly, as we proclaim our superiority to these savages. Who are the real savages? Those who struggle in order to eat those whom they vanquish, or those who struggle merely to kill?

  Guy de Maupassant

  Peace, Real, War

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  I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.

  William Golding

  Strong Women, Thinking, Novelists

  YouTube Chanel "AbecedariusRex"/ "Golding's Introduction to Lord of the Flies", www.youtube.com. May 22, 2010.

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• I love women. They're the best thing ever created. If they want to be like men and come down to our level, that's fine.

  Mel Gibson

  Love, Funny, Women

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'll tell you what's at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Money, Men, White Man

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• Be proud to be a decent American rather than a wanker whipping up fear.

  Michael D. Higgins

  Fear, America, Political

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• A woman who occupies the same realm of thought with man, who can explore with him the depths of science, comprehend the steps of progress through the long past and prophesy those of the momentous future, must ever be surprised and aggravated with his assumptions of leadership and superiority, a superiority she never concedes, an authority she utterly repudiates.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Past, Men, Long

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• Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Rise Above, Eminence

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.62

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• I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Fiction, Inferiority, Used

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• The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

  Sallust

  Intellectual, Fleeting, Wealth

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• Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Sex, Women, Thinking

  A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ch. 4 (1792)

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• A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The need to compile lists is a personality disorder, as is the need to assert the superiority of some things over other things.

  Jeremy Hardy

  Personality, Needs, Lists

  Radio Times, August 5-11, 2006.

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• There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Self Esteem, Pride

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• Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.

  Tryon Edwards

  Self, Criticism, Desert

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.173, Ravenio Books

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• The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can achieve our objective at the conference table, and deny the aggressor theirs.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Peace, Military, War

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• How seldom is generosity perfect and pure! How often do men give because it throws a certain inferiority on those who receive, and superiority on themselves!

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Men, Generosity, Giving

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• White supremacy is the conscious or unconscious belief or the investment in the inherent superiority of some, while others are believed to be innately inferior. And it doesn't demand the individual participation of the singular bigot. It is a machine operating in perpetuity, because it doesn't demand that somebody be in place driving.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  White, Machines, Demand

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• The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.

  Kim Il-sung

  Hate, War, People

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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