Inferiority Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Confidence, Fear, Light

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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• We are born to soar. We are children of God. ... The Fatherhood of God offers a deep spiritual cure for the inferiority complex and lays the firm foundation for a solid spiritual self-esteem.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Spiritual, Children, Self Esteem

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• Dogs are not like cats, who amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw. Men made dogs, they took wolves and gave them human things - unnecessary intelligence, names, a desire to belong, and a twitching inferiority complex. All dogs dream wolf dreams, and know they're dreaming of biting their Maker. Every dog knows, deep in his heart, that he is a Bad Dog.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dream, Dog, Heart

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• Do they hate the idea of her, because she's different from them, and that in this difference there might be some sort of inferiority or superiority that is hers or theirs, that in the end threatens the potential happiness of everyone?

  Steven Galloway

  Hate, Ideas, Differences

  Steven Galloway (2009). “The Cellist of Sarajevo”, p.90, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.

  Eric Hoffer

  Passion, Thread, True Believer

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• And see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Clouds, Sky, Littles

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.59, Beacon Press

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• The Superclass tries to promote its values. Ordinary people complain of divine injustice, they envy power, and it pains them to see others having fun. They don’t understand that no one is having fun, that everyone is worried and insecure, and that what the jewels, cars, and fat wallets conceal is a huge inferiority complex.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fun, Pain, Insecure

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• The word "independence" is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word "dependence" is united to the ideas of inferiority and corruption.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Ideas, Independence, Accessories

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• Humility is not simply feeling small and useless - like an inferiority complex. It is sensing how great and glorious God is, and seeing myself in that light.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Humility, Light, Feelings

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• No technological achievements can mitigate the disappointment of modern man, his loneliness, his feeling of inferiority, and his fear of war, revolution and terror. Not only has our generation lost faith in Providence but also in man himself, in his institutions and often in those who are nearest to him.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Disappointment, War, Loneliness

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). “Aspects of I.B. Singer”

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• The world, and the great and free United States in particular, is full of narrow-minded, ignorant, moronic, bigoted, cowardly, self-righteous, anemic, pig-headed, stupid, puritanical, hypocritical, prejudiced, fanatical, cocoa-blooded atavists, who soothe their inferiority complex by barking their hatred of anything new.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Stupid, Pigs, Self

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• To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Atheism, Taught, Form

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1886). “History of Woman Suffrage”, New York : Fowler & Wells

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• No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival.

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Rivals, Rivalry

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• I would confide to you perhaps my secret profession of faith - which is ... which is ... that let us say and do what we please and can ... there is a natural inferiority of mind in women - of the intellect ... not by any means, of the moral nature - and that the history of Art and of genius testifies to this fact openly.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Art, Mean, Mind

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2009). “The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846”, p.181, The Floating Press

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• Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding; and those who are conscious of their inferiority have the modesty not to talk; when they have drunk wine, every man feels himself happy, and loses that modesty, and grows impudent and vociferous; but he is not improved; he is only not sensible of his defects.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wine, Men, Drunk

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.64

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• Whether our reformers admit it or not, the economic and social inferiority of women is responsible for prostitution.

  Emma Goldman

  Economic, Social, Responsible

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.100, 谷月社

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• it is not the inferiority of women that has caused their historical insignificance; it is rather their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Women, History, Historical

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• I was glad of it: I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight, with nipped fingers and toes, and a heart saddened by the chidings of Bessie, the nurse, and humbled by the consciousness of my physical inferiority to Eliza, John, and Georgiana Reed.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Twilight, Home, Heart

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.10, Penguin

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• Recognize negativism and inferiority attitudes as enemies - do not try to dress them as your friends. you will be tempted to look upon negativism as prudence and inferiorities as humility. Strip off those false cloaks and see these attitudes in their nakedness - as enemies of you and of your possibilities.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Attitude, Humility, Enemy

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• When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn’t go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn’t train. Then it gets tiring. And you do get bored of it.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Bored, Tire, Young

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• Remember, 20 percent of women have inferiority complexes, 70 percent have illusions.

  Elsa Schiaparelli

  Fashion, Women, Remember

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• Racism is the dogma that one ethnic group is condemned by nature to congenital inferiority and another group is destined to congenital superiority.

  Ruth Benedict

  Racism, Groups, Dogma

  Ruth Benedict (1945). “Race: science and politics”

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• I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.

  Yulia Tymoshenko

  Ukraine, Political, Suffering

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• Slavery in America was perpetuated not merely by human badness but also by human blindness. ... Men convinced themselves that a system that was so economically profitable must be morally justifiable. ... Science was commandeered to prove the biological inferiority of the Negro. Even philosophical logic was manipulated [exemplified by] an Aristotlian syllogism:
  All men are made in the image of God;
  God, as everyone knows, is not a Negro;
  Therefore, the Negro is not a man.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Money, Philosophical, Men

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