Inferiors Quotes - Page 15

• The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.

  H. G. Wells

  Military, War, Men

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.14923, Delphi Classics

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• The educated man tries to repress the inferior one in himself, without realizing that by this he forces the latter to become revolutionary.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Trying, Realizing

  Carl Gustav Jung (1938). “Psychology and Religion”

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• The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves.

  Laurens van der Post

  Children, Dark, Parent

  Laurens Van Der Post (2010). “A Walk With A White Bushman”, p.49, Random House

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• The superior man is universally minded and no partisan. The inferior man is a partisan and not universal.

  Confucius

  Character, Men, Partisans

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• Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am persuaded if there was a commonwealth of rational horses... it would be an established maxim amongst them that a mare could not be taught to pace.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Horse, Animal, Men

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1803). “The works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: including her correspondence, poems, and essays”, p.201

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• Women are not men's equals in anything except responsibility. We are not their inferiors, either, or even their superiors. We are quite simply different races.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Responsibility, Men, Race

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or married to an ambitious violinist. Whether that man is the prime minister, modifying his opinions to catch votes, or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention, that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him any more than I want to eat canned salmon.

  Aleister Crowley

  Men, Ideas, Worry

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• Many Americans feel themselves inferior in the presence of anyone with an English accent, which is why an English accent has become fashionable in television commercials; it is thought to sound authoritative.

  Edwin Newman

  Television Commercials, Sound, Accents

  Edwin Newman (1974). “Strictly Speaking: Will america be the Death of English?”

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• 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 in the estimation of others. When one sets one's heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he or she is automatically involved in fear of losing status.

  Laozi

  Heart, Eye, Pride

  "Tao Teh King". Translated by Archie J. Bahm, 1996.

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• Sex and race, because they are easy and visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labour on which this system still depends.

  Gloria Steinem

  Sex, Race, Differences

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• Misery is evil; quarreling, a misfortune. There is only one possibility of avoiding both: a clear division of society. [Otherwise] the strong tyrannize the weak, the intelligent frighten the stupid, the inferior resist the superior, and the young mock the old.

  Xunzi

  Strong, Stupid, Intelligent

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• Television watching should more properly be called television staring; it engages eye and ear simultaneously in a relentless and persistent way and leaves no room for daydreaming. This is what makes watching such an inferior form of leisure

  Witold Rybczynski

  Eye, Television Watching, Ears

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• Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved.

  Peter Agre

  Teacher, School, Made

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• The thing is, I really can't relate to anyone my own age. Not in a superior way - an inferior way, if anything. Socially, I have no idea what my friends are talking about. I don't listen to any new music. I feel very secluded.

  Michael Cera

  Talking, Ideas, Age

  "Sardonic youth" by Andrew Male, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2007.

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• For so many years, I felt so insecure, so inferior, and I still have those moments, but I have a newfound confidence since I got in shape and changed my diet.

  Marc Jacobs

  Insecure, Years, Shapes

  Interview with Calvin Klein, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 10, 2010.

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• The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Men, Gentleman, Language

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• I mean I don't want to feel inferior to any other golfer in the world. You know if you do that, then you know you're giving them an advantage, you know, right off the - you know, right from the start.

  Rory McIlroy

  Mean, Giving, World

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• When I look at a digitally acquired and projected image, it looks inferior against an original negative anamorphic print or an IMAX one.

  Christopher Nolan

  Negative, Looks, Print

  "The Traditionalist". Interview with Jeffrey Ressner, www.dga.org. Spring 2012.

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• Whether many people realize it yet or not, man, the Inferior Animal, has by now proved himself incapable of keeping his own species - and others - alive for very much longer. So the earth has begun its own plan to set things right.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Men, Animal, People

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• A nervous excitability, a chronic exaltation of the passion, in which commingle the inferior life of the individual and its exterior manifestations, a state in which sentiment, idea, and will are confounded together, where for the lack of the powerful corrective of logic, the flights of imagination know no bounds, where life and human activity are deprived of a regulator, and move outside of material and concrete factors, by the sole interior force of the soul.

  Kadmi Cohen

  Powerful, Moving, Passion

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• I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior; if you want to be tragical, write about at least one person to whom the audience is bound to feel inferior, and no fair having human problems solved by dumb luck or heavenly intervention.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, People, Dumb

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• While others are engaged in inferior and menial tasks in which they encounter many difficulties, how can I sit here at peace and do nothing? I must and shall benefit them, but without ever succumbing to the poison of self-importance.

  Shantideva

  Buddhist, Self, Encounters

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• If everything that exists was made by God and for God, and God is superior to the things made by Him, he who abandons what is superior and devotes Himself to what is inferior shows that he values things made by God more than God Himself.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Made, Orthodox

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• Husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order.

  George Eliot

  Husband, Men, Order

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.540, Penguin

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• Wild Swans' showed me there are Chinese traditions that still affect my life. For example, it's not that women are inferior, exactly, but my dad and my brother are the most important men in my life and I would do anything for them. I feel like I should be the one cooking and looking after them.

  Katie Leung

  Brother, Dad, Men

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