Superiority Quotes

Air superiority is the ultimate expression of military power.

— Winston Churchill

Prove to your haters that you are too big to hate back.

— Terry Mark

“Modesty is superiority bowing to mediocrity.”

— Laura Schlessinger

I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Cool superiority as a mask for overflowing insecurity.

— Deb Caletti

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.

— Samuel Johnson

Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant.

— John Donne

Tolerance is the assumption of superiority

— Wendell Willkie

Past has a very great superiority over the future: The future may not exist; but the past existed!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

There is no remedy but love for the great superiority of others

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Old among the young, poor among the rich, I adopt an air of indefinable superiority.

— Mason Cooley

There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

HATRED, n. A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority.

— Ambrose Bierce

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Romain Gary

Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.

— Walter Lang

Though I would have liked my chances in a rematch in 1998 if I were better prepared, it was clear then that…

— Garry Kasparov

Power seems to confer on its possessor a mantle of superiority, specialness, and sexual potency, which the envious person desperately wants because…

— Alexander Lowen

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: this triptych succinctly defines the attractiveness and superiority of Western civilization.

— Ibn Warraq

“Never let anyone trample, talk trash, and feel superior against you because you’re better than those type of people. Just remember that…

— Mau5Craft

The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belonged to intellectual superiority.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be…

— George Santayana

The superior freedom of the capitalist system, its superior justice, and its superior productivity are not three superiorities, but one. The justice…

— Henry Hazlitt

I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighboring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded air of superiority.

— Horace Walpole

Wouldn't life be easier if we just stopped comparing ourselves to others? We are all the same, no one is higher or…

— Anastasia Blanchard

“I believe there is no one principle which predominates in human nature so much in every stage of life, from the cradle…

— David McCullough

The Americans are poor haters in international affairs because of their innate feeling of superiority over all foreigners. An American's hatred for…

— Eric Hoffer

I don't think he was ever happy unless someone was in love with him, responding to him like filings to a magnet,…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

All three states - the Lacedaemonian, the Cretan, and the Carthaginian - nearly resemble one another, and are very different from any…

— Aristotle

Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests,…

— E. B. White

The inference is, that God has restated the superiority of the West. God always does like that when a thousand white people…

— Zora Neale Hurston

Mankind are in the end always governed by superiority of intellectual faculties, and none are more sensible of this than the military…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Men were created before women. ... But that doesn't prove their superiority – rather, it proves ours, for they were born out…

— Moderata Fonte

For the academic the rhetorical sense of superiority through the possession of knowledge is essential for facing the daily grind, turning again…

— Robin Winks

“And she got the feeling that Boots Smith's relationship to this swiftly moving car was no ordinary one. He wasn't just a…

— Ann Petry

Then he is a monster!" the Prince crowed, "and I must slay him at once. The Formula works!" "Your Formula must result…

— Catherynne M. Valente

Man alone, during his brief existence on this earth, is free to examine, to know, to criticize, and to create. In this…

— Ruth Nanda Anshen

I hate a stupid man who can't talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t…

— Anthony Trollope

One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature…

— Anonymous

The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or…

— Humphry Davy