Superiority Quotes - Page 8

• One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human beings.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Army, Greatness, Discipline

  9 Copy quote

• The moment a mere numerical superiority by either states or voters in this country proceeds to ignore the needs and desires of the minority, and for their own selfish purpose or advancement, hamper or oppress that minority, or debar them in any way from equal privileges and equal rights-that moment will mark the failure of our constitutional system.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Selfish, Rights

  Radio broadcast, March 2, 1930.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Fundamentalism has stood aloof from the liberal in self-conscious superiority and has on its own part fallen into error, the error of textualism, which is simply orthodoxy without the Holy Ghost. Everywhere among conservatives we find persons who are Bible-taught but not Spirit-taught. They conceive truth to be something which they can grasp with the mind.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Errors, Self, Mind

  9 Copy quote

• 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

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment but nothing is quite as splendidly uplifting to the heart as the defeat of a human being who battles against the invincible superiority of fate. This is always the most grandiose of all tragedies, one sometimes created by a dramatist but created thousands of times by life.

  Stefan Zweig

  Uplifting, Heart, Ambition

  "Stellar Moments in Human History". Book by Stefan Zweig, 1953.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Racism is a belief in the inherent superiority of one race over another.

  Neal Boortz

  Race, Racism, Belief

  4 Copy quote

• To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire above any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature; contumely to God, a thing most contrary to his revealed will and approved ordinance; and finally, it is the subversion of good order, of all equity and justice.

  John Knox

  Order, Cities, Justice

  1558 First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women.

  285 Copy quote

  Show source

• Scorn also to depress thy competitor by any dishonest or unworthy method; strive to raise thyself above him only by excelling him; so shall thy contest for superiority be crowned with honour, if not with success.

  Akhenaton

  Depressing, Strive, Method

  21 Copy quote

• It is in the world of ideas and in the relation of his brain to the universe itself that the superiority of Man lies. The rise of Man may justly be described as an adventure in ideas.

  Fred Hoyle

  Lying, Adventure, Men

  "Frontiers of Astronomy". Book by Fred Hoyle (p. 1), 1955.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• In 1933-34, the Belgians conducted a census in order to issue ‘ethnic’ identity cards, which labelled every Rwandan as either Hutu (85%) of Tutsi (14%) or Twa (1%). The identity cards made it virtually impossible for Hutus to become Tutsis, and permitted the Belgians to perfect the administration of an apartheid system rooted in the myth of Tutsi superiority… Whatever Hutu and Tutsi identity may have stood for in the pre-colonial state no longer mattered; the Belgians had made ‘ethnicity’ the defining feature of Rwandan existence.

  Philip Gourevitch

  Ethnicity, Order, Issues

  4 Copy quote

• The superior freedom of the capitalist system, its superior justice, and its superior productivity are not three superiorities, but one. The justice follows from the freedom and the productivity follows from the freedom and the justice.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Justice, Three, Capitalist

  6 Copy quote

• 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

  16 Copy quote

• 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

  35 Copy quote

  Show source

• Elisabeth, again, while she praises her, is so far from hiding the Divine glory, that she ascribes everything to God. And yet, though she acknowledges the superiority of Mary to herself and to others, she does not envy her the higher distinction, but modestly declares that she had obtained more than she deserved.

  John Calvin

  Envy, Doe, Praise

  John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on Luke”, p.43, Ravenio Books

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Such a superiority do the pursuits of literature possess above every other occupation, that even he who attains but a mediocrity in them, merits the pre-eminence above those that excel the most in the common and vulgar professions.

  David Hume

  Mediocrity, Literature, Occupation

  David Hume (1782). “The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688”, p.197

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There still shines the most important nuance by virtue of which the noble felt themselves to be men of a higher rank. They designate themselves simply by their superiority in power (as "the powerful," "the masters," "the commanders") or by the most clearly visible signs of this superiority, for example, as "the rich," "the possessors" (this is the meaning of 'Arya,' and of corresponding words in Iranian and Slavic).

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Powerful, Men, Shining

  "On the Genealogy of Morality". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Essay 1, Section 5, 1887.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.

  Bill Vaughan

  Vanity, Age, Aristocracy

  9 Copy quote

• The mortal enemies of man are not his fellows of another continent or race; they are the aspects of the physical world which limit or challenge his control, the disease germs that attack him and his domesticated plants and animals, and the insects that carry many of these germs as well as working notable direct injury. This is not the age of man, however great his superiority in size and intelligence; it is literally the age of insects.

  Warder Clyde Allee

  Animal, Men, Race

  "The Social Life of Animals". Book by Warder Clyde Allee, Chapter VII: Some Human Implications, 1938.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The auspices for philosophy are bad if, when proceeding ostensibly on the investigation of truth, we start saying farewell to all uprightness, honesty and sincerity, and are intent only on passing ourselves off for what we are not. We then assume, like those three sophists [Fichte, Schelling and Hegel], first a false pathos, then an affected and lofty earnestness, then an air of infinite superiority, in order to impose where we despair of ever being able to convince.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Honesty, Philosophy, Farewell

  "Parerga and Paralipomena" by Arthur Schopenhauer, translated by E. Payne, Vol. 1, (p. 22), 1974.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Generations, Opinion, Conceit

  Margaret Oliphant (2015). “Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen”, p.7470, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The very notion of superiority of one kind over another will have to disappear, although differences among kind will remain.

  Marilyn French

  Differences, Kind, Disappear

  4 Copy quote

• What can defeat greed, technological superiority, and legal lawlessness ... is discipline, consciousness, and unity.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Discipline, Greed, Unity

  17 Copy quote

• When a man loses superiority, he loses potency. That's what all this talk about castrating women is about. Castrating women are those who refuse to pretend men are better than they are and better than women are. The simple truth - that men are only equal - can undermine a culture more devastatingly than any bomb. Subversion is telling the truth.

  Marilyn French

  Simple, Men, Culture

  Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.267, Hachette UK

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• As one might expect in a society with mass communications and mass markets, the pseudo-ethic says that whatever is popular, is right. Where the traditional ethic derives its sanction from the superiority of a few, the pseudo-ethic derives its sanction from the inferiority of a great many. The pseudo-ethic is keyed, not to the spiritually gifted, but to the spiritually ungifted.

  Margaret Halsey

  Communication, Culture, Inferiority

  Margaret Halsey (1964). “The Corrupted Giant: A Speculation on American Politics and Morals”

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The more wit you have, the more good nature you must show, to induce people to pardon your superiority, for that is no easy matter.

  Bill Vaughan

  People, Matter, Easy

  4 Copy quote