Inferiors Quotes - Page 25

• On the contrary Deepika feels inferior to other people I was surprised when I realised it. She is straightforward & very giving

  Imtiaz Ali

  People, Giving, Straightforward

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• We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Reading, Book, Fool

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• A gentleman can always be told by the way he speaks to those that he thinks are his inferiors in some respect. His equals he does not wish to offend, his superiors he does not dare to offend, and of those whom he considers his inferiors he would be all the more considerate.

  Fanny Jackson Coppin

  Respect, Thinking, Gentleman

  Fanny Jackson Coppin (1987). “Reminiscences of School Life, and Hints on Teaching”, Facsimiles-Garl

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• For know that all the inferior Creatures when hurt do cry and send forth the complaints to their Maker or grand Fountain whence they proceeded.

  Tom Tryon

  Hurt, Cry, Fountain

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• We want to determine whether he understands the inherent limits that make an unelected Judiciary inferior to Congress or the President in making policy judgments. That, for example, a judge will never be in the best position to know what is in the national security interests of our country.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Country, Judging, President

  Speech to American Enterprise Institute, www.justice.gov. January 17, 2007.

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• it is not men that most women worry about when they rise to the defense of the status quo. Their apparent endorsement of male supremacy is, rather, a pathetic striving for self-respect, self-justification, and self-pardon. After fifteen hundred years of subjection to men, Western woman finds it almost unbearable to face the fact that she has been hoodwinked and enslaved by her inferiors - that the master is lesser than the slave.

  Elizabeth Gould Davis

  Men, Years, Self

  "The First Sex". Book by Elizabeth Gould Davis. Chapter 21: "The Prejudice Lingers On", 1971.

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• He who wants to educate himself in Chess must evade what is dead in Chess... the habit of playing with inferior opponents; the custom of avoiding difficult tasks; the weakness of uncritically taking over variations or rules discovered by others; the vanity which is self-sufficient; the incapacity for admitting mistakes; in brief, everything that leas to standstill or to anarchy.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Mistake, Vanity, Self

  "Lasker's Manual of Chess". Book by Emanuel Lasker, Published in New York: Dover, p. 338, 1960.

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• Employers crave the power to fire workers whose performance is judged inferior-not just to get rid of those particular workers, but more importantly to motivate and discipline the rest of the workforce.

  Jim Stanford

  Fire, Discipline, Employers

  Jim Stanford (2008). “Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism”, Pluto Pr

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• Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. and the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Children, Growing Up, Book

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.156

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• The liberty of the press, trial by jury, the Habeas Corpus Writ, even Magna Carta itself, although justly deemed the paladia of freedom, are all inferior considerations, when compared with the general distribution of real property among every class of people.

  Noah Webster

  Wisdom, Real, Class

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• What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.

  Florence Nightingale

  Selfish, War, Nursing

  Florence Nightingale (2001). “The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”

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• Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.

  Saint Basil

  Eye, Men, Thinking

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• The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Tyranny

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• To myself, mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery; in them, and in the forms of inferior landscape that lead to them, my affections are wholly bound up.

  John Muir

  Nature, Mountain, Landscape

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• Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Numbers, Chess, Violin

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• The great World Champions Morphy, Steinitz, and Lasker were past masters in the art of Pawn play; they had no superiors in their handling of endgames. The present World Champion has not the strength of the other three as an endgame player, and is therefore inferior to them.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Art, Past, Player

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• [S]exual intercourse remains a means or the means of psychologically making a woman inferior.

  Crystal Eastman

  Mean, Feminist, Feminism

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• Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor.

  Christopher Hart

  Discipline, Bravery, Way

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• The relationship between officers and men should in no sense be that of superior and inferior, nor that of master and servant, but rather that of teacher and scholar. In fact, it should partake of the nature of the relationship between father and son, to the extent that officers, especially commanding officers, are responsible for the physical, mental, and moral welfare, as well as the discipline and military training of the young men under their command.

  John A. Lejeune

  Inspirational, Relationship, Teacher

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• The veneration, wherewith Men are imbued for what they call Nature, has been a discouraging impediment to the Empire of Man over the inferior Creatures of God. For many have not only look'd upon it, as an impossible thing to compass, but as something impious to attempt.

  Robert Boyle

  Nature, Science, Men

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• If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change.

  Robert Hewison

  Past, Yesterday, Creative

  Robert Hewison (1987). “The heritage industry: Britain in a climate of decline”, Methuen

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• Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer.

  William P. Alford

  Writing, Thinking, Simplicity

  "A Plea for the Queen's English? RU joking?" by Dan Cook, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2010.

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• No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Art, Nature, Natural

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius, XI, 10. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior?

  Carter G. Woodson

  Class, Black, Why Not

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.3, Book Tree

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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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