Superiority Quotes - Page 4

• What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers.

  Flora Tristan

  Intellectual, Slavery, England

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• To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate.

  Heraclitus

  Men, Firsts, Rate

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• Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

  Frank Muir

  Solitude, Weapons, Way

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• The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.

  Lucretius

  Envy, Levels, Thunderbolts

  Lucretius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)”, p.142, Delphi Classics

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• The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Race, Racism, Different

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• Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

  Adam Smith

  Real, Ambition, Men

  Adam Smith (1817). “The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Or, An Essay Towards an Analysis of the Principles by which Men Naturally Judge Concerning the Conduct and Character, First of Their Neighbours, and Afterwards of Themselves : to which is Added, A Dissertation on the Origin of Languages”, p.550

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• The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.

  Joseph Sobran

  Fear, Mean, Men

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• There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.

  C. S. Lewis

  Art, Taken, Mean

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Christian Reflections”, p.11, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• It is always legitimate to wish to rise above one's self, never above others.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Self, Wish, Rise Above

  Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Julia Ward Howe, Maud Howe Elliott, Florence Marion Howe Hall (1970). “Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910”

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• We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.

  Henri Bergson

  Men, Inferiority, Characteristics

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• It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Appreciation, Intelligence, Mind

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1855). “Tales and Sketches of New England Life: Comprising "The Mayflower," and Other Miscellaneous Writings”, p.46

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• Assumption of superiority by any person over any other is a sin against God and man.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Men, Assumption

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.176, Courier Corporation

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• Let no man, in whatever rank or superiority, control your mind and tell you what to do

  Christopher Paolini

  Men, Mind

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• Everybody loves to find fault, it gives a feeling of superiority.

  William Feather

  Giving, Feelings, Faults

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• Teach your children not to strive for high self-esteem. This is nothing less than teaching them arrogance, conceit and superiority feelings.

  Paul Hauck

  Children, Self Esteem, Teaching

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• I hate a stupid man who can't talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect. I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . . A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can't show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.

  Anthony Trollope

  Sex, Clever, Stupid

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children”, p.755, e-artnow

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• Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment but nothing is quite as splendidly uplifting to the heart as the defeat of a human being who battles against the invincible superiority of fate. This is always the most grandiose of all tragedies, one sometimes created by a dramatist but created thousands of times by life.

  Stefan Zweig

  Uplifting, Heart, Ambition

  "Stellar Moments in Human History". Book by Stefan Zweig, 1953.

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• The superior freedom of the capitalist system, its superior justice, and its superior productivity are not three superiorities, but one. The justice follows from the freedom and the productivity follows from the freedom and the justice.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Justice, Three, Capitalist

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• To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire above any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature; contumely to God, a thing most contrary to his revealed will and approved ordinance; and finally, it is the subversion of good order, of all equity and justice.

  John Knox

  Order, Cities, Justice

  1558 First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women.

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• Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

  Harry Lorayne

  Animal, Men, Thinking

  Harry Lorayne (2005). “Secrets of Mind Power: Your Absolute, Quintessential, All You Wanted to Know, Complete Guide to Memory Mastery”, p.26, Frederick Fell Publishers

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• One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human beings.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Army, Greatness, Discipline

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• A man's bookseller should keep his confidence, like his physician. What can become of a world where every man knows what another man reads? Why, sir, books would become like quacks' potions, with every mountebank in the newspapers claiming one volume's superiority over another.

  P.B. Kerr

  Book, Men, Physicians

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• Scorn also to depress thy competitor by any dishonest or unworthy method; strive to raise thyself above him only by excelling him; so shall thy contest for superiority be crowned with honour, if not with success.

  Akhenaton

  Depressing, Strive, Method

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• It is in the world of ideas and in the relation of his brain to the universe itself that the superiority of Man lies. The rise of Man may justly be described as an adventure in ideas.

  Fred Hoyle

  Lying, Adventure, Men

  "Frontiers of Astronomy". Book by Fred Hoyle (p. 1), 1955.

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• I reject the idea that humans are superior to other life forms. . . Man is just an ape with an overly developed sense of superiority.

  Paul Watson

  Men, Ideas, Apes

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