Superiority Quotes

397 quotes by 323 authors

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority. — Simone de Beauvoir
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in… — Simone de Beauvoir
A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his… — Alfred Adler
One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority. — Napoleon Bonaparte
People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. — Van Wyck Brooks
Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him. — Samuel Butler
Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other… — Lord Byron
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over… — William Ellery Channing
She was not a white woman. She was not a Greek... Until the emergence of the doctrine of white superiority, Cleopatra was generally pictured as… — John Henrik Clarke
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world. — Leonard Cohen
The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority. — James A. Baldwin
Black! Black! Black! I am proud of being a Negro. Nor have I ever tried to beg tolerance from anyone. Superiority is not proved by… — Jose Celso Barbosa
No man has a right in America to treat any other man "tolerantly" for tolerance is the assumption of superiority. Our liberties are equal rights… — Wendell Willkie
The superiority of chocolate (hot chocolate), both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which… — Thomas Jefferson
My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people. — John Philip Sousa
Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little,… — Marcel Proust
No matter how much someone may irritate me, I have no right to puff myself up with my own self-importance so as to declare that… — Paulo Freire
Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment… — Emile Durkheim
The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with… — George Santayana
The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself. — Joseph Sobran

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