Superiors Quotes - Page 24

• Because of its independence of surface limitations and its superior speed the airplane is the offensive weapon par excellence.

  Giulio Douhet

  Airplane, Independence, Excellence

  General Giulio Douhet (2014). “Command Of The Air”, p.32, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• The weapon where the man is sitting in is always superior against the other.

  Erich Hartmann

  Men, Sitting, Air Power

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• Superior technical achievements - used correctly both strategically and tactically - can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior.

  Adolf Galland

  Achievement, Stronger, Air Power

  Adolf Galland (1954). “The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945”

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• Intelligence is present everywhere in our bodies . . . our own inner intelligence is far superior to any we can try to substitute from the outside.

  Deepak Chopra

  Life, Trying, Body

  Deepak Chopra (2015). “Quantum Healing (Revised and Updated): Exploring the Frontiers of Mind/Body Medicine”, p.53, Bantam

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• Fascism is a religious conception in which man is seen in his immanent relationship with a superior law and with an objective Will that transcends the particular individual.

  Benito Mussolini

  Religious, Men, Law

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• I shall never get out of this! There are two of me now: This new absolutely white person and the old yellow one, And the white person is certainly the superior one. She doesn't need food, she is one of the real saints. At the beginning I hated her, she had no personality- She lay in bed with me like a dead body And I was scared, because she was shaped just the way I was only much whiter and unbreakable and with no complaints. I couldn't sleep for a week she was so cold.

  Sylvia Plath

  Real, Sleep, Two Of Me

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.141, Faber & Faber

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• I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison.

  Nelson Mandela

  Men, Jail, Prison

  Twitter post from Mar 04, 2017

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• I never did anything, great or small, without obtaining in advance express instructions from Adolf Hitler or any of my superiors.

  Adolf Eichmann

  Instruction, Obtaining

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• For the black man to come out superior would be against America's teachings. I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, to counteract my image in the ring. America has to have its white images, no matter where it gets them. Jesus, Wonder Woman, Tarzan and Rocky.

  Muhammad Ali

  Jesus, Teaching, Men

  "Watching Rocky Ii With Muhammad Ali" by Roger Ebert, www.rogerebert.com. July 31, 1979.

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• Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

  Louise Bogan

  Art, Achievement, Feelings

  Louise Bogan (2005). “A poet's prose: selected writings of Louise Bogan : with the uncollected poems”, Swallow Press

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• If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species might appear, on earth or elsewhere, man would use every means at his disposal to destroy it.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Mean, Men, Thinking

  Jean Baudrillard (2001). “Selected Writings”, p.223, Stanford University Press

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• It frankly does not make sense to occasionally 'fill up' with water, with long periods of dehydration in between. The same thing is true spiritually. Spiritual thirst is a need for living water. A constant flow of living water is far superior to sporadic sipping.

  David A. Bednar

  Spiritual, Long, Water

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• One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  World

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• The truth is, however, that every religion form is superior to the others in a particular respect, and it is this characteristic that in fact indicates the sufficient reason for the existence of that form.

  Frithjof Schuon

  Facts, Truth Is, Reason

  "The Transcendent Unity of Religions". Book by Frithjof Schuon, 1953.

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• One sometimes gets the impression that those intimidating words are there to keep us from understanding. That way, the scholars can appear Superior, and will not likely be suspected of Not Knowing Something.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Knowing, Understanding, Way

  "The Tao of Pooh". Book by Benjamin Hoff, 1982.

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• Accordingly, one race is neither superior nor inferior to another.

  Walter Lang

  Race, Inferiors

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• The legal system is designed to protect men from the superior power of the state but not to protect women or children from the superior power of men. It therefore provides strong guarantees for the rights of the accused but essentially no guarantees for the rights of the victim. If one set out by design to devise a system for provoking intrusive post-traumatic symptoms, one could not do better than a court of law.

  Judith Lewis Herman

  Strong, Children, Men

  Judith Lewis Herman (1992). “Trauma and recovery”, Basic Books

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• Poincaré [was] the last man to take practically all mathematics, pure and applied, as his province. ... Few mathematicians have had the breadth of philosophic vision that Poincaré had, and none in his superior in the gift of clear exposition.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Men, Vision, Lasts

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• At the very dawn of history, the care of the sick was actually superior to what the great majority of mankind receive today when ill.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Sick, Today, Dawn

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• In the bureaucratic machine of socialism the way toward promotion is not achievement but the favor of the superiors.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Achievement, Machines, Favors

  Ludwig Von Mises (1944). “Bureaucracy”

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• If you were to show me your current financial plan, would I get so excited by it that I would go across the country and lecture on it? If the answer is no, then here's my question: ‘Why not?’ Why wouldn't you have a superior financial plan that is taking you to the places you want to go?

  Jim Rohn

  Country, Why Not, Answers

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 17, 2013

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• The superior man is distressed by his want (lack) of ability

  Confucius

  Men, Want, Ability

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• The superior man is slow in his words and earnest in his conduct.

  Confucius

  Men, Earnest, Superior Man

  Confucius (2005). “The Ethics of Confucius”, p.4, Cosimo, Inc.

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• As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Opportunity, Men, Good Man

  "Notes for a Law Lecture," ca. 1 July 1850

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• There is no problem outside of you that is superior to the power within you.

  Bob Proctor

  Problem, No Problem, Within You

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 14, 2015

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