Superiors Quotes - Page 33

• Money doesn't give you any license to relax. It gives you an opportunity to use all your abilities, free of financial worries, to go forward, and to use your superior advantages and talents to help others.

  Rose Kennedy

  Money, Helping Others, Opportunity

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• Sex and race, because they are easy and visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labour on which this system still depends.

  Gloria Steinem

  Sex, Race, Differences

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• Cuvier had even in his address & manner the character of a superior Man, much general power & eloquence in conversation & great variety of information on scientific as well as popular subjects. I should say of him that he is the most distinguished man of talents I have ever known on the continent: but I doubt if He be entitled to the appellation of a Man of Genius.

  Humphry Davy

  Character, Science, Men

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• Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than, and superior to, brute force.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Race, Law, Force

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa”

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• The adversary she found herself forced to fight was not worth matching or beating; it was not a superior ability which she would have found honour in challenging; it was ineptitude - a grey spread of cotton that seemed soft and shapeless, that could offer no resistance to anything or anybody, yet managed to be a barrier in her way. She stood, disarmed, before the riddle of what made this possible, she could find no answer.

  Ayn Rand

  Fighting, Challenges, Ineptitude

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• There was, I think, never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.153, Routledge

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• No democracy is born perfect, and none ever gets to be perfect. Yet democracy is superior to authoritarian and totalitarian regimes because, unlike them, democracy is perfectible.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Perfect, Democracy, Regimes

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• Misery is evil; quarreling, a misfortune. There is only one possibility of avoiding both: a clear division of society. [Otherwise] the strong tyrannize the weak, the intelligent frighten the stupid, the inferior resist the superior, and the young mock the old.

  Xunzi

  Strong, Stupid, Intelligent

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• I admire men of character and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates. And that, to me, is where you find out what the character of a man is.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Character, Men, Judging

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• Those who are addicted to the phrase "to use a vulgarism" expect to achieve the feat of being at once vulgar and superior to vulgarity.

  Henry Watson Fowler

  Phrases, Use, Achieve

  Henry Watson Fowler (1994). “A Dictionary of Modern English Usage”, p.352, Wordsworth Editions

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• I just don't understand how you can not be concerned about your appearance. From time to time I'm vilified as the person who cares about the look of a teapot - and it's not that I believe my taste is superior , I just can not believe that other people don't care.

  Stephen Bayley

  Believe, People, Who Cares

  "Stephen Bayley interview: prize exhibit". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2000.

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• The feat of superbly imitating a muscle, as Michelangelo did, or a face, as Raphael did, created neither progress nor a hierarchy in art. Because these artists of the sixteenth century imitated human forms, they were not superior to the artists of the high periods of Egyptian, Chaldean, Indochinese, Roman, and Gothic art who interpreted and stylized form but did not imitate it.

  Fernand Leger

  Art, Progress, Faces

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• I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards.

  Richard Cobden

  Names, Coward, World

  Richard Cobden (1870). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy”, p.408

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• Just as humans have a prior right to existence over dogs by virtue of being more highly evolved and having a superior consciousness, so women have a prior right to existence over men. The elimination of any male is, therefore, a righteous and good act, an act highly beneficial to women as well as an act of mercy.

  Valerie Solanas

  Dog, Men, Males

  Valerie Solanas (1971). “SCUM Manifesto”, p.67, Verso

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• Every Maryland family wants financial security, schools that work, quality healthcare, safer neighborhoods, and ever-expanding economic opportunity. These are the building blocks of a superior quality of life.

  Bob Ehrlich

  Block, School, Opportunity

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• People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.

  F. Murray Abraham

  People, Desire, Want

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

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• A culture that supports the dominance of social values over biological values is an absolutely superior culture to one that does not, and a culture that supports the dominance of intellectual values over social values is absolutely superior to one that does not.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Social Values, Support, Intellectual

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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• The paradigm of Western culture is that the essence of persons is dangerous; thus, they must be taught, guided, and controlled by those with superior authority.

  Carl Rogers

  Essence, Taught, Western Culture

  Carl Ransom Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.201, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration.

  Rene Dubos

  Health, Aberration, May

  René Jules Dubos (1987). “Mirage of Health: Utopias, Progress, and Biological Change”, p.25, Rutgers University Press

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• The thing is, I really can't relate to anyone my own age. Not in a superior way - an inferior way, if anything. Socially, I have no idea what my friends are talking about. I don't listen to any new music. I feel very secluded.

  Michael Cera

  Talking, Ideas, Age

  "Sardonic youth" by Andrew Male, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2007.

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• Michael Vick may enjoy watching dogs fight. Someone else may find that repulsive but see nothing wrong with eating an animal who has had a life as full of pain and suffering as the lives of the fighting dogs. It's strange that we regard the latter as morally different from, and superior to, the former.

  Gary L. Francione

  Dog, Pain, Fighting

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• There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.

  Janis Ian

  People, Ignorant, Needs

  "Janis Ian's Controversial 'Society's Child'". "News and Notes" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. March 2, 2009.

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• Prayer is vastly superior to worry. With worry, we are helpless; with prayer, we are interceding. When I hear sad news, I try to say a prayer for the victims. When I am troubled, I will say a prayer that asks for relief for myself and for all those who suffer as I do. When I am concerned about my relatives or friends I say a short prayer to myself - "May they be happy and free of suffering."

  Mary Pipher

  Peace, Prayer, Worry

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• The one thing about program television that's absolutely incompatible with any concept of art is that all decisions have to be made by program directors, whereas art is autonomous. It may be dependent, but it knows no superiors.

  Alexander Kluge

  Art, Decision, Television

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• If we compare the two, Facebook is currently a superior place to market a product like Slide. Twitter is more like a general distribution agent. It's like broadcast radio.

  Max Levchin

  Two, Agents, Radio

  "Max Levchin on Slide’s big virtual goods bet, scams and — mating". Interview with Kim-Mai Cutler, venturebeat.com. November 5, 2009.

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