Superiority Quotes - Page 4

• The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Race, Racism, Different

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• The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.

  Joseph Sobran

  Fear, Mean, Men

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• Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

  Frank Muir

  Solitude, Weapons, Way

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• To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate.

  Heraclitus

  Men, Firsts, Rate

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• The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.

  Lucretius

  Envy, Levels, Thunderbolts

  Lucretius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)”, p.142, Delphi Classics

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• The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.

  Kim Il-sung

  Hate, War, People

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers.

  Flora Tristan

  Intellectual, Slavery, England

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• There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.

  C. S. Lewis

  Art, Taken, Mean

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Christian Reflections”, p.11, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.

  Henri Bergson

  Men, Inferiority, Characteristics

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• It is always legitimate to wish to rise above one's self, never above others.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Self, Wish, Rise Above

  Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Julia Ward Howe, Maud Howe Elliott, Florence Marion Howe Hall (1970). “Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910”

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• It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Appreciation, Intelligence, Mind

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1855). “Tales and Sketches of New England Life: Comprising "The Mayflower," and Other Miscellaneous Writings”, p.46

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• Assumption of superiority by any person over any other is a sin against God and man.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Men, Assumption

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.176, Courier Corporation

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• Let no man, in whatever rank or superiority, control your mind and tell you what to do

  Christopher Paolini

  Men, Mind

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• Everybody loves to find fault, it gives a feeling of superiority.

  William Feather

  Giving, Feelings, Faults

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• We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch advantages without paying the price at which they are offered to us. Every man wishes to be rich, but very few have the powers necessary to raise a sudden fortune, either by new discoveries, or by superiority of skill in any necessary employment; and among lower understandings many want the firmness and industry requisite to regular gain and gradual acquisitions.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Skills, Discovery

  Samuel Johnson (1824). “Works: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.243

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• Without good humour, learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert, where he roars without reply, and ravages without resistance. Without good humour virtue may awe by its dignity and amaze by its brightness, but must always be viewed at a distance, and will scarcely gain a friend or attract an imitator.

  Samuel Johnson

  Distance, Heart, Bravery

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.102

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• I hate a stupid man who can't talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect. I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . . A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can't show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.

  Anthony Trollope

  Sex, Clever, Stupid

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children”, p.755, e-artnow

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• Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Giving, Sick, Advice

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Paul Victor Cohn (1910). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”

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• I try--without success--to stop finding reasons for vanity in anything. When I happen to manage it nonetheless, I feel that I no longer belong to the mortal gang. I am above everything then, above the gods themselves. Perhaps that is what death is: a sensation of great, of extreme superiority.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Vanity, Trying, Gang

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• When anyone tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether it be more probable that this person should either deceive or be deceived or that the fact which he relates should really have happened. I weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision. Always I reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous than the event which he relates, then and not till then, can he pretend to command my belief or opinion.

  David Hume

  Men, Decision, Miracle

  David Hume (2016). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: Revision of Great Book”, p.88, VM eBooks

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• This is not just a simple story of "money can't buy happiness." Or maybe that's just what it is. And if it is, why shouldn't it be? Because if this is something we are already supposed to know, then why don't we know it? Why do we chase and scrabble and fight for things to flaunt, why? Why do we reach for power over other people, and through the thin superiority of our possessions, believe we have it? Why do we let money make people bigger, and allow those without it to be made smaller? How did we lose the truth in the frantic, tribal drumbeat of more, more, more?

  Deb Caletti

  Believe, Fighting, Simple

  Deb Caletti (2009). “The Fortunes of Indigo Skye”, p.256, Simon and Schuster

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• You don't play a game or color a picture with a child to show your superiority. Rather, you choose to limit yourself so as to facilitate and honor that relationship.

  William P. Young

  Children, Color, Games

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• ...We leave our homeland, our property and our friends. We give up the familiar ground that supports our ego, admit the helplessness of ego to control its world and secure itself. We give up our clingings to superiority and self-preservation...It means giving up searching for a home, becoming a refugee, a lonely person who must depend on himself...Fundamentally, no one can help us. If we seek to relieve our loneliness, we will be distracted from the path. Instead, we must make a relationship with loneliness until it becomes aloneness.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Lonely, Giving Up, Loneliness

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• But it is not at all certain that this superiority of the many over the sound few is possible in the case of every people and every large number. There are some whom it would be impossible: otherwise the theory would apply to wild animals- and yet some men are hardly any better than wild animals.

  Aristotle

  Men, Animal, Numbers

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• What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character of each individual, and that when the naturally better element controls the worse then the man is said to be "master of himself", as a term of praise. But when - as a result of bad upbringing or bad company one s better element is overpowered by the numerical superiority of one s worse impulses, then one is criticized for not being master of oneself and for lack of self control.

  Plato

  Character, Mean, Men

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