The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“The sullen workman who is afraid of being imposed upon is secretly convinced of his own inferiority--when he has to say, or… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Because they dream so strongly in themselves, their superiority and women's inferiority, they project an image that a woman finds very, very… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
A melancholy air can never be the right thing; what you want is a bored air. If you are melancholy, it must… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
I can never suppose this country so far lost to all ideas of self-importance as to be willing to grant America independence;… — George III Copy Share Image
Not only was Cain called upon to suffer, but because of his wickedness, he became the father of an inferior race. A… — Joseph Fielding Smith Copy Share Image
I'm thinking I would like to dance in the rain with this person. I would like to lie next to him in… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want to cry. It means trying to hold on to physical… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I am not an educated person. I didn't come up through a ballet company. I came up through burlesque. So I have… — Bob Fosse Copy Share Image
“The trouble with girls is, if they like a boy, no matter how big a bastard he is, they'll say he has… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Every time you mention some guy that's strictly a bastard— very mean, or very conceited and all— and when you mention it… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be.… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“A great inferiority of beauty gives pain to a person conversant in the highest excellence of the kind, and is for that… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Bond always mistrusted short men. They grew up from childhood with an inferiority complex. All their lives they would strive to be… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
The Hegelian dynamic plays out daily on and off the film sets - women are not lesser beings, but because they are… — Padmapriya Janakiraman Copy Share Image
Nowhere is woman treated according to the merit of her work, but rather as a sex. It is therefore almost inevitable that… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
A barber is by nature and inclination a sport. He can tell you at what exact hour the ball game is to… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
I managed to get my copy of Ulysses through safely this time. I rather wish I had never read it. It gives… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The inferiority of photographs to the best works of artists, so far as resemblance is concerned, lies in their catching no more… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
A man looking at a hippopotamus may sometimes be tempted to regard a hippopotamus as an enormous mistake; but he is also… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I just can't see either a man or a woman in a dependency position, because from this sort of relationship flows a… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
“I knew firsthand that mysterious state of people who appear to be sure of themselves but are actually eaten alive with fear… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man seems to be a rickety poor sort of thing, any way you take him; a kind of British Museum of infirmities… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A fascinating mystery of nature is manifested in the universal fact of hunting: the inexorable hierarchy among living beings. Every animal is… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Another powerful principle of our nature, which is the spring of war, is the passion for superiority, for triumph, for power. The… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
If your ego is hurt you may become angry. Understand that ego itself is a disease. Dissolve your ego as far as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm used to it. I'm used to being cancelled on. I'm used to being left out. I'm used to being the second… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One can be deceived by three types of laziness: of indolence, which is the wish to procrastinate; the laziness of inferiority, which… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
It is quite possible that future generations will look upon arguments about the inferiority of the socialist plan as we look upon… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
The world, and the great and free United States in particular, is full of narrow-minded, ignorant, moronic, bigoted, cowardly, self-righteous, anemic, pig-headed,… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
“He was not so lucky. He hadn't yet had enough experience with humans to know that the thing the hold dearest to… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
I never did like the assertion of the "innate" inferiority or women or Blacks, and I understood that when people tried to… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
You may look in the mirror and feel like you are not as good but someone on this Earth is waiting for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
If your starting point for understanding humanity is a racialist viewpoint, with superiority and inferiority projected onto people because of the color… — Allan Boesak Copy Share Image
So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I've told the story often about how that inspired me later in… — George J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
“We all know someone who criticizes us to diminish our confidence or belittle our achievements. A person so disturbed, they project their… — Carlos Wallace Copy Share Image
“No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne." "I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is more… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Too many photographers try too hard. They try to lift photography into the realm of Art, because they have an inferiority complex… — Jessie Tarbox Beals Copy Share Image
