Superiority Quotes · Page 25

When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.

— Barbara Kingsolver

... if we say that the Father is the origin of the Son and greater than the Son, we do not suggest…

— Pope Clement I

Amal,I believe that most Americans do not love as we do. It is not for any inherent deficiency or superiority in them.…

— Susan Abulhawa

I love and honour [Paulus Aemilius, in Plutarch's Lives], for his fondness for his children, which instead of blushing at, he avows…

— Fanny Burney

And how we become like our parents! How their scorned advice - based, we felt in our superiority, on prejudices and muddled…

— Alexander McCall Smith

Only Jesus, God, Apostles told us what was 100% true, everything else is just questionable such as science.

— Charles Brown

When I am convinced of any principle, it is only an idea which strikes more strongly upon me. When I give the…

— David Hume

People of small calibre are always carping. How affected so-and-so is! Don't you think he is silly? He was certainly quite mistaken…

— Van Wyck Brooks

Fashion understands itself; good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever country readily fraternize with those of every other. The chiefs of savage tribes…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the…

— Samuel Johnson

How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation…

— Anonymous

Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feelings of moral superiority while asking…

— Jonathan Haidt

If you put someone on a pedestal don't be surprised when they start acting like you're beneath them.

— Sonya Parker

Envy is the most universal passion. We only pride ourselves on the qualities we possess, or think we possess; but we envy…

— William Hazlitt

The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised.

— George Henry Lewes

It's an attitude of superiority. We are superior to the rest of life. The Book of Genesis says: 'Increase and multiply and…

— W. S. Merwin

Whoever gives advice to the sick gains a sense of superiority over them, no matter whether his advice is accepted or rejected.…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent…

— James Baldwin

We recognize caste in dogs because we rank ourselves by the familiar dog system, a ladderlike social arrangement wherein one individual outranks…

— Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

For Rousseau and Mandeville the absence of a moral instinct meant the laws of society had no moral validity, they were nothing…

— Gertrude Himmelfarb

But there are still people whose moral superiority defeats your own.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

As a society, you were unwilling to reflect upon the shared pain that united you with those who attacked you. You retreated…

— Mohsin Hamid

The Great Thing A Little Lamp Can Do Which The Big Sun Cannot Do Is, It Gives Light At Night. No One…

— Pacifiersucker

This is not just a simple story of "money can't buy happiness." Or maybe that's just what it is. And if it…

— Deb Caletti

If your starting point for understanding humanity is a racialist viewpoint, with superiority and inferiority projected onto people because of the color…

— Allan Boesak