Superiors Quotes - Page 3

• The most important message of a crucifix, to me anyway, was how unspeakably cruel supposedly sane human beings can be when under orders from a superior authority.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Order, Important, Messages

  "Hocus Pocus, or What's the Hurry, Son?". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1990.

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• At equal returns, public investments are generally superior to private investments not only because they are more liquid but also because amidst distress, public markets are more likely than private ones to offer attractive opportunities to average down.

  Seth Klarman

  Opportunity, Average, Return

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• The hedge fund known as "Long Term Capital Management" collapsed last fall through overconfidence in its highly leveraged methods, despite I.Q.'s of its principals that must have averaged 160. Smart people aren't exempt from professional disasters from overconfidence. Often, they just run aground in the more difficult voyages they choose, relying on their self-appraisals that they have superior talents and methods.

  Charlie Munger

  Running, Smart, Fall

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• The consciousness of having discharged that duty which we owe to our country is superior to all other considerations.

  George Washington

  Country, Consciousness, Consideration

  George Washington (1835). “The writings of George Washington: being his correspondence, addresses, messages, and other papers, official and private, selected and published from the original manuscripts; with a life of the author, notes, and illustrations”, p.331

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• But the 20th century suffered "two" ideologies that led to genocides. The other one, Marxism, had no use for race, didn't believe in genes and denied that human nature was a meaningful concept. Clearly, it's not an emphasis on genes or evolution that is dangerous. It's the desire to remake humanity by coercive means (eugenics or social engineering) and the belief that humanity advances through a struggle in which superior groups (race or classes) triumph over inferior ones.

  Steven Pinker

  Meaningful, Struggle, Believe

  "Q&A: Steven Pinker of 'Blank Slate'". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. October 30, 2002.

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• God chose Israel not because they were superior but because of what He could do through them for others.

  Max Anders

  Israel

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• We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.

  Timothy Keller

  Judging, Moral, Preference

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• It's better to feel sorry for doing something bad than to feel superior for doing something good.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Sorry, Feels

  Twitter post from Jan 02, 2015

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• The direction and rhythm of human progress do not depend on the masses, even when they add up to hundreds of millions; they depend on superior minorities.

  Gonzalo Fernandez de la Mora

  Progress, Add, Minorities

  Gonzalo Fernández de la Mora (1987). “Egalitarian Envy: The Political Foundations of Social Justice”, New York : Paragon House

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• The bureaucrat is not free to aim at improvement. He is bound to obey rules and regulations established by a superior body. He has no right to embark upon innovations if his superiors do not approve of them. His duty and his virtue is to be obedient.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Innovation, Rules And Regulations, Body

  Ludwig Von Mises (1969). “Bureaucracy”, ICON Group International

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• What the political left, even in democratic countries, share is the notion that knowledgeable and virtuous people like themselves have both a right and a duty to use the power of government to impose their superior knowledge and virtue on others.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Government, People

  "Presumptions Of The Left". townhall.com. May 16, 2007.

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• Most activists on the Left believe that they, not only their values, are morally superior to their adversaries. Therefore, coercing people to adhere to 'progressive' values is morally acceptable, even demanded.

  Dennis Prager

  Believe, People, Progressive

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• In all teaching there must be a fusion of authority as an adult providing a stable framework for the children in one's care, and humility as another human being ready to educate an equal who may turn out to be a superior.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Children, Teaching, Humility

  Yehudi Menuhin (1977). “Unfinished Journey”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• It makes me sick to see a superior runner wait behind the field until 200 meters to go and then sprint away. That is immoral. It's both an insult to the other runners and a denigration of his own ability.

  Ron Clarke

  Sick, Waiting, Fields

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• Health is a presence of a superior state of wellbeing, a vigor, a vitality, a pizzazz you have to work for every single day of your life.

  Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

  Vitality, Vigor, Pizzazz

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• Science is much closer to myth than a scientific philosophy is prepared to admit. It is one of the many forms of thought that have been developed by man, and not necessarily the best. It is conspicuous, noisy, and impudent, but it is inherently superior only for those who have already decided in favour of a certain ideology, or who have accepted it without ever having examined its advantages and its limits.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Philosophy, Men, Limits

  Paul Feyerabend (1982). “Against method: Outline of anarchistic theory of knowledge”

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• Where no man thinks himself under any obligation to submit to another, and, instead of co-operating in one great scheme, every one hastens through by-paths to private profit, no great change can suddenly be made; nor is superior knowledge of much effect, where every man resolves to use his own eyes and his own judgment, and every one applauds his own dexterity and diligence, in proportion as he becomes rich sooner than his neighbour.

  Samuel Johnson

  Eye, Men, Thinking

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets”, p.399

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• Your employee should have superior technical skills than you. If he doesn't, it means you have hired the wrong person.

  Jack Ma

  Mean, Should Have, Skills

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• The superior leader keeps informed about everything but interferes hardly at all.

  Laozi

  Leader, Interfere

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• This divine Compassion is spontaneous Delight. In it there is no feeling of separativity, no feeling that one is superior and the other is inferior. No! It is a feeling of oneness.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Compassion, Oneness, Feelings

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• Everything is the result of the Law of Action and Consequence but with the possibility that a superior law transcends an inferior law.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Law, Action, Possibility

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• To Investigate in the superior worlds, the logic thinking and the exact concept are needed.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Thinking, World, Logic

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• Defeatist thoughts handicap persons from elevating their mechanistic life to superior states. The majority of persons consider themselves defeated even before beginning the struggle or the Gnostic esoteric work.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Struggle, Majority, Esoteric

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• Only through the Sacrifice it is possible for an inferior energy to be transformed into energy of a superior and different type.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Sacrifice, Energy, Different

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• There are some men who, in a spirit of arrogance, think they are superior to women. They do not seem to realize that they would not exist but for the mother who gave them birth. When they assert their superiority they demean her.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Mother, Men, Thinking

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