Inferiors Quotes - Page 4

• The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.

  H. L. Mencken

  Work, Stress, Men

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.250, Knopf

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• How do I change? If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill I will double my labor. If I feel fear I will plunge ahead. If I feel inferior I will wear new garments. If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice. If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come. If I feel incompetent I will think of past success. If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals. Today I will be the master of my emotions.

  Og Mandino

  Sad, Past, Thinking

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• Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that "falling in love"...is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Falling In Love, Love Is, Mind

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• It was not that ladies were inferior to men; it was that they were different. Their mission was to inspire others to achievement rather than to achieve themselves. Indirectly, by means of tact and a spotless name, a lady could accomplish much. But if she rushed into the fray herself she would be first censured, then despised, and finally ignored.

  E. M. Forster

  Mean, Men, Names

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.381, Delphi Classics

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• It's all about time, dimwit time, inferior time, people checking watches and other devices, other reminders. This is time draining out of our lives. Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There's an endless counting down, he said. When you strip away surfaces, when you see into it, what's left is terror. This is the thing that literature was meant to cure. The epic poem, the bedtime story.

  Don DeLillo

  Epic, Cities, People

  Don DeLillo (2010). “Point Omega”, p.36, Pan Macmillan

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• Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the most destructive way of being different.

  Paulo Coelho

  Pride, People, Judging

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• He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist. Nothing is inferior for being old, and nothing is valuable for being modern. This has freed me from the tyranny of novelty and opened for me the wisdom of the ages.

  John Piper

  Age, Vices, Novelty

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• The idea of equality is a by-product of the sentiment of envy. Since it must always prove beyond human ower to raise the inferior mass to a superior stratum, apostles of equality must ever be inferiors seeking to reduce their betters to their level. It follows that a nation that once admits this doctrine of equality will be dragged by it to the level, moral, intelletual and political, of its most worthless class.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Class, Ideas, Envy

  Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Rafael Sabatini (Illustrated)”, p.5085, Delphi Classics

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• It is true that the subliminal in man is the largest part of his nature and has in it the secret of the unseeen dynamisms which explain his surface activities. But the lower vital subconscious which is all that this psycho-analysis of Freud seems to know, - and of that it knows only a few ill-lit corners, - is no more than a restricted and very inferior portion of the subliminal whole... to begin by opening up the lower subconscious, risking to raise up all that is foul or obscure in it, is to go out of one's way to invite trouble.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Men, Opening Up, Secret

  "The Perennial Quest for a Psychology with a Soul: An Inquiry Into the Relevance of Sri Aurobindo's Metaphysical Yoga Psychology in the Context of Ken Wilber's Integral Psychology". Book by Joseph Virtue, 2002.

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• Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned... Everything is war. Me say war. That until the're no longer 1st class and 2nd class citizens of any nation... Until the color of a man's skin is of no more significa...nce than the color of his eyes, me say war. That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race me say war!

  Bob Marley

  Philosophy, War, Eye

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• Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.

  Alan Watts

  Inspirational, Pleasure, Materials

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.59, Souvenir Press

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• For a strong adversary (corps) the opposition of twenty-four squadrons and twelve guns ought not to have appeared very serious, but in war the psychological factors are often decisive. An adversary who feels inferior is in reality so.

  Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

  Strong, Military, War

  Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (friherre) (1953). “The Memoirs of Marshal Mannerheim”

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• We insist on being Someone, with a capital S. We get security from defining ourselves as worthless or worthy, superior or inferior. We waste precious time exaggerating or romanticizing or belittling ourselves with a complacent surety that yes, that’s who we are. We mistake the openness of our being—the inherent wonder and surprise of each moment—for a solid, irrefutable self. Because of this misunderstanding, we suffer.

  Pema Chodron

  Mistake, Self, Suffering

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• When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

  Irving Layton

  Clever, Arguing, Argument

  Irving Layton (1969). “The whole bloody bird: obs, aphs & pomes”

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• It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork.

  Mark Twain

  Death, Men, Meat

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.254, Courier Corporation

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• By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman, or the charlatan. In other words, it forfeits its own evolutionary potential. For what distinguishes us from the rest of the animal kingdom is precisely the gift of speech. Poetry is not a form of entertainment and in a certain sense not even a form of art, but it is our anthropological, genetic goal. Our evolutionary, linguistic beacon.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Art, Animal, Goal

  Joseph Brodsky's opening remarks as United States Poet Laureate, October 1991.

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• No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.

  Claire LaZebnik

  Family, Lying, Agency

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• The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.

  C. S. Lewis

  Political, Way, Fields

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.55, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.

  Jane Austen

  Mind, Income, May

  Jane Austen (2009). “Emma”, p.55, Wild Jot Press

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• It took years after I’d graduated from Amherst to realize that people were actually far more complicated and interesting than books, that almost everyone else suffered the same secret fears and inadequacies as I, and that feeling alone and inferior was actually the great valent bond between us all. I wish I’d been smart enough to understand that when I was an adolescent.

  David Foster Wallace

  Smart, Book, Years

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• Because of that she had never had enough energy to be herself, a person who, like everyone else in the world, needed other people in order to be happy. But other people were so difficult. They reacted in unpredictable ways, they surrounded themselves with defensive walls, they behaved just as she did, pretending they didn't care about anything. When someone more open to life appeared, they either rejected them outright or made them suffer, consigning them to being inferior, ingenuous.

  Paulo Coelho

  Wall, Order, People

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• I had no interests. I had no interest in anything. I had no idea how I was going to escape. At least the others had some taste for life. They seemed to understand something that I didn’t understand. Maybe I was lacking. It was possible. I often felt inferior. I just wanted to get away from them. But there was no place to go. Suicide? Jesus Christ, just more work. I felt like sleeping for five years but they wouldn’t let me.

  Charles Bukowski

  Suicide, Jesus, Sleep

  "Ham On Rye". Book by Charles Bukowski, 1982.

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• Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I. I have to contribute my potential to life; you have to contribute your potential to life. I have to discover my own being; you have to discover your own being.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Unique, People

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• Sam doesn't hesitate for a minute. 'You say, "Mr and Mrs Tavish, you're making me feel inferior. Do you really think I'm inferior or is it just in my mind?

  Sophie Kinsella

  Thinking, Mind, Minutes

  Sophie Kinsella (2012). “I've Got Your Number”, p.197, Random House

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• Knowledge exists in two forms - lifeless, stored in books, and alive, in the consciousness of men. The second form of existence is after all the essential one; the first, indispensable as it may be, occupies only an inferior position.

  Albert Einstein

  Book, Men, Two

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.439, Princeton University Press

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