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Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence. — Samuel Johnson
Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant. — John Donne
Negro servants have been smuggling odds and ends out of white homes for generations, and white people have been delighted to have them do it,… — James A. Baldwin
Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national. — Philip Wylie
To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate. — Heraclitus
If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
The suggestion that Jews were selected from among all nations of the earth to be God's chosen people suggested a kind of group arrogance, especially… — Israel Shenker
The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much… — Moses Mendelssohn
Japan suffered terribly from the atomic bomb but never adopted a pose of moral superiority, implying: 'We would never have done it!' The Japanese know… — George Mikes
The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. Check yourself against this list of obstacles to a… — Harold Geneen
Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; and shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status… — Laozi
The British suffer from a most unfortunate superiority complex - unjustified even under Victoria and most certainly hopelessly out-of-date today. — George Mikes
The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt. — Lucretius
The military superiority of Europe to Asia is not an eternal law of nature, as we are tempted to think, and our superiority in civilization… — Bertrand Russell
There was, I think, never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle. — Bertrand Russell
A Christian is one who rejoices in the superiority of a rival. — Edwin Booth
Man alone, during his brief existence on this earth, is free to examine, to know, to criticize, and to create. In this freedom lies his… — Ruth Nanda Anshen
Despite his [Artie Shaw's] affectations of reclusiveness, he never tired of talking about himself, as countless long interviews reveal. I do not recall an anecdote… — Gene Lees
Biological Superiority: The World's Most Dangerous and Deadly Idea. — Andrea Dworkin
One of the marked superiorities the English enjoy over other peoples is their ability to imbue the foreigner with a crippling inferiority complex the moment… — Pierre Daninos
Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other… — Harry Lorayne
Air control can be established by superiority in numbers, by better employment, by better equipment, or by a combination of these factors. — Carl Andrew Spaatz
Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all history. Sometimes I… — Walt Whitman
Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other. — Honore de Balzac
Beauty is a natural superiority. — Plato

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