Inferiors Quotes · Page 9

The natural sciences are sometimes said to have no concern with values, nor to seek morality and goodness, and therefore belong to…

— Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; and shame is fear of humiliation at…

— Laozi

Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives over books,…

— Samuel Johnson

Generally our confidences move downward rather than upward; in our secret affairs, we employ our inferiors much more than our bettors.

— Honore de Balzac

Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having…

— Rachel Carson

You see, I'm a mighty proud gal and I can't for the life of me, find any valid reason why anyone should…

— Fredi Washington

The superior man is universally minded and no partisan. The inferior man is a partisan and not universal.

— Confucius

The House is composed of very good men, not shining, but honest and reasonably well-informed, and in time will be found to…

— Fisher Ames

She feels so contented in giving birth to a child, in helping the child to grow; and that's why she does not…

— Rajneesh

Racism serves as the cutting edge of the most reactionary movements. An ideology that starts by declaring one human being inferior to…

— Ken Livingstone

[S]exual intercourse remains a means or the means of psychologically making a woman inferior.

— Crystal Eastman

Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I.

— Rajneesh

The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his…

— H. G. Wells

For her part, the Church always works for the integral development of every person. In this sense, she reiterates that the common…

— Pope Francis

The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving…

— Simone de Beauvoir

There is another way in which the general opinion, that women are inferior to men, is manifested....I allude to the disproportionate value…

— Sarah Moore Grimke

... the truth is exactly that which can't be got into words. We are forced to lie, a little or, if we…

— Storm Jameson

I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior; if you want…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I will rather suffer a thousand wrongs than offer one. I have always found that to strive with a superior is injurious;…

— Joseph Hall

So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but…

— Aristotle

Humanizing birth means understanding that the woman giving birth is a human being, not a machine and not just a container for…

— Marsden Wagner

No good writer was ever long neglected; no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength,…

— Walter Savage Landor

If you see cattle as a source of organic manure, animal energy, as well as milk products, then Indian cattle are not…

— Vandana Shiva

It is often asserted that as woman has always been man's slave--subject--inferior--dependent, under all forms of government and religion, slavery must be…

— Susan B. Anthony