Superiors Quotes - Page 31

• The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.

  Samuel Richardson

  Thinking, Delight, World

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.392

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• That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned: That until there are no longer first-class and second class citizens of any nation; That until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes; That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race; That until that day, the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained.

  Haile Selassie

  Dream, Philosophy, Eye

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 6 October 1963

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• [On Sophie Germain] When a person of the sex which, according to our customs and prejudices, must encounter infinitely more difficulties than men... succeeds nevertheless in surmounting these obstacles and penetrating the most obscure parts of [number theory], then without doubt she must have the noblest courage, quite extraordinary talents and superior genius.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Sex, Freedom, Men

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• If we break promises to God, shouldn't we be allowed an occasional violation of our word to our friends and superiors?

  James Lee Burke

  Promise, Our Words, Break

  James Lee Burke (2011). “A Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set: Neon Rain, Heaven's Prisoners, Excerpt from The Glass Rainbow”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Essence, Conspiracy

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.145, Vintage

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• Customers won’t care about any particular technology unless it solves a particular problem in a superior way. And if you can’t monopolize a unique solution for a small market, you’ll be stuck with vicious competition.

  Peter Thiel

  Unique, Technology, Competition

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.123, Crown Business

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• An effective executive builds on strengths - their own strengths, the strengths of superiors, colleagues, subordinates, and on the strength of the situation.

  Peter Drucker

  Situation, Colleagues, Executives

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• What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immovable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.

  Jaimal Yogis

  Principles, Mastery, Adaptation

  Mu Soeng, Jaimal Yogis (2010). “Saltwater Buddha: A Surfers Quest to Find Zen on the Sea (Large Print 16pt)”, p.72, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The intelligence displayed by many dumb animals approaches so closely to human intelligence that it is a mystery. The animals see and hear and love and fear and suffer. They use their organs far more faithfully than many human beings use theirs. They manifest sympathy and tenderness toward their companions in suffering. Many animals show an affection for those who have charge of them, far superior to the affection shown by some of the human race. They form attachments for man which are not broken without great suffering to them.

  Ellen G. White

  Animal, Men, Race

  Ellen G. White (2013). “Ellen G. White Miscellaneous Periodical Articles - Book III of III”, p.305, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Better to be ordinary people in a superior country than to be a president in a disreputable country.

  Khem Veasna

  Country, People, President

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• A smaller government reflecting the needs of the middle class and poor is superior to a big government reflecting the needs of the privileged and powerful.

  Robert Reich

  Powerful, Government, Class

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• Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Book, Style, Add

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.125

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• And that is how we intend to destroy the enemy!" The superior shakes his head wearily. "Young man, the Soviets are our adversary. The Navy is the enemy.

  David Frum

  Men, History, Historical

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• The toad has indeed no superior as a destroyer of noxious insects, and he possesses no bad habits and is entirely inoffensive himself, every owner of a garden should treat him with utmost hospitality.

  Celia Thaxter

  Animal, Garden, Toads

  Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.10, Applewood Books

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• You can't change anything by fighting or resisting it. You change something by making it obsolete through superior methods.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Fighting, Obsolete, Method

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• A superior who works on his own development sets an almost irresistible example.

  Peter Drucker

  Example, Development, Irresistible

  "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1973.

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• It's not so much about the cause, it's about feeling superior to political opponents.

  Glenn Reynolds

  Political, Feelings, Politics

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• The present inhabitation of Mars be a race superior to ours is very probable.

  Camille Flammarion

  Race, Mars

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• The power generated of ten minds for good is superior to that of ten thousand minds acting on a lower motive. But it is a silent power. It moves in mysterious ways. It is noiseless. It makes no show of open opposition. It uses no methods of effort through tongue or arm or physical force.

  Prentice Mulford

  Moving, Effort, Mind

  Prentice Mulford (2012). “Your Forces And How To Use Them (Complete Annotated Edition)”, p.203, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Simple, Language, Poet

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• Be obedient to your superior, and your inferior will obey you.

  Muhammad Ali

  Obedience, Inferiors, Obedient

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• Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.

  Moliere

  Money, People, Consideration

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• I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity...

  Frederick Douglass

  Rights, Race, Humanity

  "Our Composite Nationality". Frederick Douglass' Address in Boston, Massachusetts, teachingamericanhistory.org. December 7, 1869.

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• Truth is superior to man s wisdom.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Men, Mankind

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.29, Rajpal & Sons

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• Democracy is the superior form of government, because it is based on a respect for man as a reasonable being.

  John F. Kennedy

  Men, Democracy, Form

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