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To talk of comparing the Bible with other "sacred books" so called, such as the Koran...or the book of Mormon, is positively absurd. You might… — J C Ryle
Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority… — Thomas Sowell
Humility is the essence of repentance. Humility is selfless, not selfish. It doesn't demand its own way or speak with moral superiority. Instead, humility answers softly and listens… — L. Whitney Clayton
A fascinating mystery of nature is manifested in the universal fact of hunting: the inexorable hierarchy among living beings. Every animal is in a relationship… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
While under precapitalistic conditions superior men were the masters on whom the masses of the inferior had to attend, under capitalism the more gifted and… — Ludwig von Mises
We modern egalitarians are tempted to the primal sin of pride in the opposite way from the ancients. The old, aristocratic form of pride was… — Peter Kreeft
We will convert the entire world to Islam with our logic. We are confident that the Islamic logic, culture, and discourse can prove their superiority… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
They would be the shepherds over us, their sheep. Certainly such an arrangement presupposes that they are naturally superior to the rest of us. And… — Frederic Bastiat
The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority. — Alfred Adler
If one class of society is obliged, in order to live, to take any price for its services, while another can abstain from such action… — Emile Durkheim
There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming one's superiority in… — David Lehman
Among well bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an… — David Hume
Countries with deficit don't want to pay the bill, and they want to get more loans, and countries with superiority, they don't want to help… — Sebastian Pinera
Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others. — Tacitus
Surprise becomes effective when we suddenly face the enemy at one point with far more troops than he expected. This type of numerical superiority is… — Carl von Clausewitz
I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer. — Aleksandar Hemon
The moment a mere numerical superiority by either states or voters in this country proceeds to ignore the needs and desires of the minority, and… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
To me, elitism means a love of excellence and superiority, but America has declared war on both and developed a sick love of the lowest… — Florence King
The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other country. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fundamentalism has stood aloof from the liberal in self-conscious superiority and has on its own part fallen into error, the error of textualism, which is… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
War! When I but think of this word, I feel bewildered, as though they were speaking to me of sorcery, of the Inquisition, of a… — Guy de Maupassant
Most do violence to their natural aptitude, and thus attain superiority in nothing. — Baltasar Gracian
Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet. — Henry David Thoreau
I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it,… — Alexis de Tocqueville

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