Inferiority Quotes - Page 4

• Human beings are worthy of the highest respect, but not all opinions and beliefs are worthy of respect and tolerance. There are some who believe in fascism, white supremacy, the inferiority of women. Must they be respected?

  Maryam Namazie

  Believe, Two, White

  "One woman's war" by Nick Cohen, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2005.

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• We as outsiders can't differentiate between Sunni and Shi'ah, but leave it to them and they'll get over the difficulty by some kind of hanky panky, just as the Turks did, and for the present it's the only way of getting over it. I don't for a moment doubt that the final authority must be in the hands of the Sunnis, in spite of their numerical inferiority; otherwise you will have a mujtahid-run, theocratic state, which is the very devil.

  Gertrude Bell

  Running, Hands, Doubt

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• We are permitted to suppose that the relatively small size of the female brain depends in part upon her physical inferiority and in part upon her intellectual inferiority.

  Paul Broca

  Intellectual, Brain, Female

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• A melancholy air can never be the right thing; what you want is a bored air. If you are melancholy, it must be because you want something, there is something in which you have not succeeded.
  It is shewing your inferiority. If you are bored, on the other hand, it is the person who has tried in vain to please you who is inferior.

  Stendhal

  Air, Hands, Want Something

  Stendhal (2006). “The Red and the Black: Easyread Edition”, p.245, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The function of high school, then, is not so much to communicate knowledge as to oblige children finally to accept the grading system as a measure of their inner excellence. And a function of the self-destructive process in American children is to make them willing to accept not their own, but a variety of other standards, like a grading system, for measuring themselves. It is thus apparent that the way American culture is now integrated it would fall apart if it did not engender feelings of inferiority and worthlessness.

  Jules Henry

  Education, Children, Fall

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• She feels so contented in giving birth to a child, in helping the child to grow; and that's why she does not need any other kind of creativity. Her creative urge is fulfilled. But man is in trouble: he cannot give birth to a child, he cannot have the child in his womb. He has to find a substitute, otherwise he will always feel inferior to the woman. And deep down he does feel that he is inferior. Because of that feeling of inferiority man tries to create paintings, statues, dramas, he writes poetry, novels, explores the whole scientific world of creativity.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Drama, Writing

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• And that is enough to raise your thoughts to what may happen when the redeemed soul, beyond all hope and nearly beyond belief, learns at last that she has pleased Him whom she was created to please. There will be no room for vanity then. She will be free from the miserable illusion that it is her doing. With no taint of what we should now call self-approval she will most innocently rejoice in the thing that God has made her to be, and the moment which heals her old inferiority complex forever will also drown her pride… Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

  C. S. Lewis

  Humility, Pride, Vanity

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• I'm thinking I would like to dance in the rain with this person. I would like to lie next to him in the dark and watch him breathe and watch him sleep and wonder what he's dreaming about and not get an inferiority complex if the dreams aren't about me.

  Rachel Cohn

  Dream, Lying, Rain

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2007). “Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.155, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority

  Yukio Mishima

  Hero, Worship, Cynicism

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• Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity

  James A. Baldwin

  Believe, Trying, Doe

  "A Letter to My Nephew" by James Baldwin, progressive.org. January 1, 1962.

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• Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant.

  H. L. Mencken

  Inspirational, Men, Progress

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.416, Knopf

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• Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee.

  J.R. Ward

  Love, Jealousy, Zsadist

  J.R. Ward (2005). “Dark Lover: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.128, Penguin

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• But if you are a poor creature--poisoned by a wretched up-bringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels--saddled, by no choice of your own, with some loathsome sexual perversion--nagged day in and day out by an inferiority complex that makes you snap at your best friends--do not despair. He knows all about it. You are one of the poor whom He blessed. He knows what a wretched machine you are trying to drive. Keep on. Do what you can. One day He will fling it on the scrap-heap and give you a new one. And then you may astonish us all - not least yourself.

  C. S. Lewis

  Blessed, Giving, House

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• One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something better or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique utterly different than that from which it is torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time or alien in language or diverse in interest.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Unique, Stealing Things

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• There's something really the matter with most people who wear tattoos. There's at least some terrible story. I know from experience that there's always something terribly flawed about people who are tattooed, above some little something that Johnny had done in the Navy, even though that's a bad sign...It's terrible. Psychologically it's crazy. Most people who are tattooed, it's the sign of some feeling of inferiority, they're trying to establish some macho identification for themselves.

  Truman Capote

  Tattoo, Crazy, People

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• Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pride, Racism, Teeth

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays”, p.60, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A capacity for inferiority in the growing adult is threatened by the temptation by squander that capacity ruthlessly, to revel in hallowness. The syndrom especially plaques anyone who lives behind a mask. An elephant in her disquise as a human princess, a scarecrow with painted features, a glittering tiara under which to glow and glide in anonymous glamour. A witch's hat, a wizards stole, a scholars gown, a soldiers dress sartorials. A hundred ways to duck the question: how will I live with myself now that I nkow what I know.

  Gregory Maguire

  Princess, Elephants, Ducks

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• Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.

  George Santayana

  Selfish, Men, Overcoming

  "Little Essays Drawn from the Writings of George Santayana".

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• The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are races all of whose members are foredoomed to eternal inferiority.

  Franz Boas

  Race, Justice, Diversity

  Franz Boas (1969). “Race and Democratic Society”, p.20, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• I'm an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.

  Eric Clapton

  Egomaniacs, Inferiority Complex, Complexes

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• We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority.

  James Hillman

  Inspirational, Goal, Vices

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• One often has need of one inferior to himself.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Needs, Inferiors

  "Fables (Book II)". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1668-1694.

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• How seldom is generosity perfect and pure! How often do men give because it throws a certain inferiority on those who receive, and superiority on themselves!

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Men, Generosity, Giving

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• Elizabeth, having rather expected to affront him, was amazed at his gallantry; and Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman as he was by her. He really believed, that were it not for the inferiority of her connections, he should be in some danger of falling in love, and were it not for his considerable skill in the deadly arts, that he should be in danger of being bested by hers--for never had he seen a lady more gifted in the ways of vanquishing the undead.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Falling In Love, Art, Skills

  Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”, p.49, Quirk Books

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• A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf is evil. He is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other wolf is good. he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you." The son thought about it for a minute and then asked, "Which wolf will win?" The old man replied simply, "The one you feed.

  Wendy Mass

  Kindness, Regret, Lying

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