Inferiors Quotes - Page 18

• Power seems to confer on its possessor a mantle of superiority, specialness, and sexual potency, which the envious person desperately wants because he feels himself on some level to be inferior, unimportant, and impotent.

  Alexander Lowen

  Levels, Want, Envious

  Alexander Lowen (2012). “Narcissism: Denial of the True Self”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Shortcuts, Primitive, Thinker

  H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ The Ultimate Horror Collection: 60 Occult & Supernatural Mysteries in One Volume: The Greatest Spine-Chilling and Blood-Curdling Stories of Terror & Macabre: The Call of Cthulhu, The White Ship, The Dunwich Horror, At The Mountains Of Madness, The Whisperer in Darknessäó_”, p.106, e-artnow

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• Racism serves as the cutting edge of the most reactionary movements. An ideology that starts by declaring one human being inferior to another is the slope whose end is at Auschwitz.

  Ken Livingstone

  Cutting, Racism, Movement

  "This Is About Israel, Not Anti-Semitism". www.theguardian.com. March 04, 2005.

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• The need to speak the truth and even to seek it for oneself is only conceivable in so far as the individual thinks and acts as one of a society, and not of any society (for it is just the constraining relations between superior and inferior that often drive the latter to prevarication) but of a society founded on reciprocity and mutual respect, and therefore on cooperation.

  Jean Piaget

  Thinking, Needs, Cooperation

  Jean Piaget (1997). “The Moral Judgement of the Child”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

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• With a higher moral nature will come a restriction on the multiplication of the inferior.

  Herbert Spencer

  Moral, Restriction, Higher

  Herbert Spencer (1899). “The Synthetic Philosophy of Herbert Spencer: Principles of biology”

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• Miracles may be, for anything we know to the contrary, phenomena of a higher order of God's laws, superior to, and, under certain conditions, controlling the inferior order known to us as the ordinary laws of nature.

  Charles Babbage

  Order, Law, Miracle

  Charles Babbage (1864). “Passages from the Life of a Philosopher”, p.490, London : Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green

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• Being different is ... interesting; there's nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution; and if the differences are too extreme ... well, then, reality tends to fade away.

  Edward Albee

  Reality, Differences, Interesting

  Edward Albee (2007). “Seascape: The Entire Appalling Business”, p.69, The Overlook Press

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• You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the effort of men who are better than you. If this be arrogance, as some of your critics observed, it is still the truth that had to said in the age of the Welfare State.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Effort, Arrogance

  Ludvig von Mises' letter to Ayn Rand praising Atlas Shrugged (January 23, 1958) as quoted in Jorg Guido Hulsmann "Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism", September 4, 2007.

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• Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action, whether animate, or inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus we say, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of optics, or mechanics, as well as the laws of nature and of nations. And it is that rule of action, which is prescribed by some superior, and which the inferior is bound to obey.

  William Blackstone

  Law, Optics, Action

  Sir William Blackstone, Edward Christian, John Frederick Archbold, Joseph Chitty (1827). “Commentaries on the Laws of England”, p.25

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• Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors.

  John Calvin

  Hatred, Desire, Common

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.32, Baker Books

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• In spirituality the Americans are very inferior to us. But their society is very superior to ours.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spirituality, Superiors

  "The Life of Vivekananda and the Universal Gospel". Book by Romain Rolland, 5th edition, p. 74, 1960.

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• Feeling essentially superior to other people is as sure a sign of poor self-esteem as feeling essentially inferior.

  Harriet Lerner

  Self Esteem, People, Feelings

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• There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good habits, good temper, patience, order, courtesy, tact, self-reliance, many deference to superior officers, and many consideration for inferiors.

  Chester A. Arthur

  Order, Self, Habit

  First annual message, 1881.

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• No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

  Sydney Smith

  Power, Men, Ends

  Sydney Smith (1849). “Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution in the Years 1804-1806”, p.109

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• He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Gold, Riches, Fool

  Jeremy Taylor, Thomas Smart Hughes (1831). “The Works of Jeremy Taylor”, p.113

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• It already appears, that there must be in every society of men superiors and inferiors, because God has laid in the constitution and course of nature the foundations of the distinction.

  John Adams

  Men, People, Foundation

  John Adams (1787). “A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America”, p.159

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• Jealousy, in spite of the mad frenzy of its most splendid displays, is a vice of weakness; it arises from a mind whose aspirations and desires are inferior to its accomplishments; it is the child of baulked vanity and failure of courage.

  Arthur Alfred Lynch

  Children, Vanity, Accomplishment

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• Apparently the average man sees woman alternatelyas an inferior being and as an angel.

  Willa Holland

  Angel, Men, Average

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• A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.

  Aristotle

  Flatterer

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.215, Wordsworth Editions

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• All women are inferior to men.

  Garry Kasparov

  Men

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• The society of Christendom and especially of Western Christendom up to the explosion, which we call the Reformation, had been a society of owners: a Proprietarial Society. It was one in which there remained strong bonds between one class and another, and in which there was a hierarchy of superior and inferior, but not, in the main, a distinction between a restricted body of possessors and a main body of destitute at the mercy of the possessors, such as our society has become.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Strong, Class

  Hilaire Belloc (2016). “The Crisis Of Civilization”, p.84, TAN Books

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• Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.

  Anthony Powell

  Portraits, Process, Sat

  Anthony Powell (2005). “Some Poets, Artists & 'A Reference for Mellors'”, p.251, Timewell Press

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• Faith is precisely the paradox that the single individual as the single individual is higher than the universal, is justified before it, not as inferior to it but superior - yet in such a way, please note, that it is the single individual who, after being subordinate as the single individual to the universal, now by means of the universal becomes the single individual who as the single individual is superior, that the single individual as the single individual stands in an absolute relation to the absolute.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Mean, Atheism, Way

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• The so-called religious organizations which now lead the war against the teaching of evolution are nothing more, at bottom, than conspiracies of the inferior man against his betters.

  H. L. Mencken

  Religious, War, Teaching

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• I wish and will continue to wish, that the German people should learn that by reason of practical examples afforded by their ability and work, they are not a second-rate or inferior people in comparison with others.  On the contrary they are their equals according to all true standards of values and therefore entitled to equal rights in all respects.

  Adolf Hitler

  Rights, People, Wish

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