“It is important to note that research has shown that men who have abusive mothers do not tend to develop especially negative… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Never yield to that temptation, which, to most young men, is very strong, of exposing other people's weaknesses and infirmities, for the… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading. — Alice James Copy Share Image
There is a kind of grandeur and respect which the meanest and most insignificant part of mankind endeavor to procure in the… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Surprise becomes effective when we suddenly face the enemy at one point with far more troops than he expected. This type of… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
To use a fighter as a fighter-bomber when the strength of the fighter arm is inadequate to achieve air superiority is putting… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
“... flattening their scorn underneath the chariot wheels of her superiority.” — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factorites,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“First, a man may in some ways be superior to his fellows and still serve them, if together they serve a common… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
Spike Lee made such a difference in terms of black filmmakers, the subtleties - those authors, those writers who write from love,… — Ruby Dee Copy Share Image
The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
“When we resource ourselves in humility, we align with self-acceptance. We often recognize that the need for swagger, bluster and “witty repartees”… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Another parent's different approach raises the possibility that you've made a mistake with your child. We simply can't tolerate that because we… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Those who show pity and are always ready to help during times of trouble are seldom the same ones who rejoice in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Well-bred' ensured buckled noses, high-arched feet, a predisposition to madness, and ... an innate belief in our own unquestioning superiority.” — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
Atheism: the religion devoted to the worship of one's own smug sense of superiority. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Our understanding of the thought of the past is liable to be the more adequate, the less the historian is convinced of… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
“Biological determinism is a blight on science. It implies that the way things are is the way they must be. [...] This… — John Horgan Copy Share Image
“As she grew older, Maddy discovered that she had disappointed almost everyone. An awkward girl with a sullen mouth, a curtain of… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
We are the bullies of the earth: strong, foul, coarse, greedy, careless, indifferent to others, laying waste as we proceed, leaving wounds,… — Ian McHarg Copy Share Image
...that left Francesca to slink into the chair opposite us. My feeling of superiority was short-lived, however, when she settled herself down… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Numerical superiority is of no consequence. In battle, victory will go to the best tactician."- G. A. Custer — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Yes, there are in me the makings of a very fine loafer, and also of a pretty spry sort of fellow. I… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
