Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's…

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of mans superiority to all that befalls him.

— Romain Gary

Had Adam tenderly reproved his wife, and endeavored to lead her to repentance instead of sharing in her guilt, I should be much more…

— Sarah Moore Grimke

Talents give a man a superiority far more agreeable than that which proceeds from riches, birth, or employments, which are all external. Talents constitute…

— Charles Rollin

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.

— Peter Singer

There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.

— Henry Taylor

Without good humour, learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert, where he roars…

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Adam Smith

Our knowledge and understanding of nonhuman animals is polluted far more than we acknowledge by our belief in our own superiority, our unrecognized cultural…

— Will Tuttle

I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that…

— Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet

Being six feet off the ground does give one a sense of superiority.

— Megan Whalen Turner

There never will be a trust in excellence or a combination in superiority. As long as you can do a thing a little better…

— Orison Swett Marden

“Love and respect a woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and…

— Giuseppe Mazzini

Because I've never had any higher education of any sort, I've never held in awe those who have had it or have a sense…

— Jeremy Corbyn

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

— Mason Cooley

I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within…

— Alexis de Tocqueville