Superiority Quotes - Page 6

• Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority.

  Marie Corelli

  Giving, Envy, Hatred

  Marie Corelli (2015). “The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance”, p.211, The Floating Press

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• Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.

  Horace Mann

  Men, Characteristics, Circumstances

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• I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Novelists, Kind, Call Me

  "Life before loss". Interview with Sophie Harrison, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2008.

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• Racism is the dogma that one ethnic group is condemned by nature to congenital inferiority and another group is destined to congenital superiority.

  Ruth Benedict

  Racism, Groups, Inferiority

  Ruth Benedict (1945). “Race: science and politics”

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• Men, also, have in them enormous capacities that they have to repress and fear in themselves, living up to this obsolete and brutal man-eating, bear-killing, Ernest Hemingway, crewcut Prussian sadistic, napalm all the children in Vietnam, bang-bang you're dead, image of masculinity, the image of all powerful masculine superiority that is absolute.

  Betty Friedan

  Children, Powerful, Men

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• We are foolish, and without excuse foolish, in speaking of the superiority of one sex to the other, as if they could be compared in similar things! Each has what the other has not; each completes the other; they are in nothing alike and the happiness and perfection of both depend on each asking and receiving from the other what the other only can give.

  John Ruskin

  Sex, Equality, Giving

  John Ruskin (2001). “Sesame and Lilies”, p.76, Electric Book Company

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• Countries with deficit don't want to pay the bill, and they want to get more loans, and countries with superiority, they don't want to help the countries with problems, and they just want them to tighten their belts.

  Sebastian Pinera

  Country, Want, Pay

  "CNN Means Business", www.cnn.com. October 1, 2012.

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• The person whose clothes are extremely fine I am too apt to consider as not being possessed of any superiority of fortune, but resembling those Indians who are found to wear all the gold they have in the world in a bob at the nose.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Clothes, Gold, Bob

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith. 2: Enquiry into the present state of polite learning; The citizen of the world”, p.259

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• Beauty is a natural superiority.

  Plato

  Beauty, Natural

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a psychological inability to submit to certain absurd duties, and a natural result of the distorted, unbalanced education given to them. This laziness, which leads to an insuperable reluctance to learn, is, contrary to appearances, sometimes proof of intellectual superiority and a condemnation of the teacher.

  Octave Mirbeau

  Teacher, Children, Intellectual

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• Unwittingly, the feminists acknowledge the superiority of the male sex by wishing to become like men.

  Alice von Hildebrand

  Sex, Men, Feminist

  Alice Von Hildebrand (2002). “The Privilege of Being a Woman”, Ignatius Press

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• No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival.

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Inferiority, Rivals

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• Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.

  Walter Lang

  Promise, Christ, Curse

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• Japan suffered terribly from the atomic bomb but never adopted a pose of moral superiority, implying: 'We would never have done it!' The Japanese know perfectly well they would have used it had they had it. They accept the idea that war is war; they give no quarter and accept none. Total war, they recognize, knows no Queensberry Rules. If you develop a devastating new weapon during a total war, you use it; you do not put it into the War Museum.

  George Mikes

  Funny, War, Museums

  George Mikes (1970). “The land of the rising yen: Japan”, Harvard Common Press

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• Man alone, during his brief existence on this earth, is free to examine, to know, to criticize, and to create. In this freedom lies his superiority over the forces that pervade his outward life. He is that unique organism in terms of matter and energy, space and time, which is urged to conscious purpose. Reason is his characteristic and indistinguishing principle. But man is only man -- and free -- when he considers himself as a total being in whom the unmediated whole of feeling and thought is not severed and who impugns any form of atomization as artificial, mischievous, and predatory.

  Ruth Nanda Anshen

  Lying, Unique, Men

  Ruth Nanda Anshen (1971). “Language: An Enquiry Into Its Meaning and Function”, Associated Faculty PressInc

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• A Christian is one who rejoices in the superiority of a rival.

  Edwin Booth

  Christian, Rivals, Rejoice

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• Envy is the most universal passion. We only pride ourselves on the qualities we possess, or think we possess; but we envy the pretensions we have, and those which we have not, and do not even wish for. We envy the greatest qualities and every trifling advantage. We envy the most ridiculous appearance or affectation of superiority. We envy folly and conceit; nay, we go so far as to envy whatever confers distinction of notoriety, even vice and infamy.

  William Hazlitt

  Passion, Pride, Thinking

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1466, Delphi Classics

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• Disarmament should be conducive to the enhancement of every country's general security instead of becoming the instrument and means for a few countries to strengthen their military superiority by weakening or restricting other countries.

  Sha Zukang

  Country, Military, Mean

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• Superiority and success doesn't favor good effort or self-esteem... The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches.

  Bobby Knight

  Success, Self Esteem, Winning

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• Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious; but, for the same reason, every one is eager to instruct his neighbors.

  Samuel Johnson

  Grateful, Giving, Advice

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.139

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• Strange, that certain superiority the goer-away feels for the stayer-at-home.

  Lenora Mattingly Weber

  Home, Strange, Certain

  Lenora Mattingly Weber (1970). “How Long Is Always?”, Ty Crowell Company

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• The business of the endgame is maneuvring to control critical squares, advancing or blockading passed pawns, preparing a breakthrough by the king, or exploiting the subtle superiority of one piece over another.

  Pal Benko

  Kings, Squares, Pieces

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• After all, there is such a thing as looking like a gentleman. There are men whose class no dirt or rags can hide, any more than they could Ulysses. I have seen such men in plenty among workmen, too; but, on the whole, the gentleman--by whom I do not mean just now the rich--have the superiority in that point. But not, please God, forever. Give us the same air, water, exercise, education, good society, and you will see whether this "haggardness," this "coarseness" (etc., for the list is too long to specify), be an accident, or a property, of the man of the people.

  Charles Kingsley

  Mean, Exercise, Men

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• Men of quality never appear more amiable than when their dress is plain. Their birth, rank, title and its appendages are at best indivious and as they do not need the assistance of dress, so, by their disclaiming the advantage of it, they make their superiority sit more easy.

  William Shenstone

  Men, Quality, Titles

  William Shenstone (1868). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.174

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• Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.

  Tacitus

  Proof, Harm, Valour

  Cornelius Tacitus (1868). “The Agricola and Germany of Tacitus”

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