Superiors Quotes - Page 34

• The superior man is quiet and calm, waiting for the appointments of heaven, while the mean man walks in dangerous paths, looking for lucky occurrences.

  Confucius

  Mean, Men, Waiting

  James Legge, Confucius, Mencius, Shih ching (1867). “The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius”, p.291

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• If a superior man abandon virtue, how can he fulfil the requirements of that name?

  Confucius

  Men, Names, Virtue

  Confucius, Mencius (1861). “The Chinese Classics”

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• The crimes of extreme civilization are probably worse than those of extreme barbarism, because of their refinement, the corruption they presuppose, and their superior degree of intellectuality.

  Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

  Civilization, Degrees, Corruption

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• Court the society of a superior, and make much of the opportunity; for in the company of an equal thy good fortune must decline.

  Saadi

  Opportunity, Association, Decline

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• In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior.

  Saadi

  Men, Speech, Faculty

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• It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only criminals sentenced by the law, but the other kills honest men who like himself bathe in innocent blood at the bidding of some superior.

  George Santayana

  War, Men, Blood

  George Santayana (1986). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.

  Mason Cooley

  Literature, Succeed, Failing

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• I've witnessed thousands of superior athletes try to becomes hitters and fail at it.

  Willie Stargell

  Sports, Athlete, Trying

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• In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical" discontent, is insanity.

  Susan Sontag

  Spiritual, Insanity, Feelings

  Susan Sontag (1979). “Illness as metaphor”, Vintage

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• The saving grace of all really great gifts is that the persons who bear their burden remain superior to what they have done, at least as long as the source of creativity is alive.

  Hannah Arendt

  Creativity, Long, Grace

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• I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

  Sacha Guitry

  Men, Trying, Ifs

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• If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Judging, Reason, Fraud

  "Personal Recollections" by Rush Rhees, Ch. 6, 1981.

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• Women are not men's equals in anything except responsibility. We are not their inferiors, either, or even their superiors. We are quite simply different races.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Responsibility, Men, Race

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• A revolution does not march a straight line. It wanders where it can, retreats before superior forces, advances wherever it has room, attacks whenever the enemy retreats or bluffs, and above all, is possessed of enormous patience.

  Mao Zedong

  Enemy, Doe, Lines

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• One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

  Pauline Kael

  Culture, Taste, Reverence

  pauline kael (1965). “i lost it at the movies”

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• The suggestion that Jews were selected from among all nations of the earth to be God's chosen people suggested a kind of group arrogance, especially when the good news was first reported by Jews. However, the choice was interpreted not as tribute to superior virtue but as divine challenge.

  Israel Shenker

  People, Choices, Challenges

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing. They always want to have the air of knowing better than you what you are going to tell them; when, in their turn, they begin to speak, they repeat to you with the greatest confidence, as if dealing with their own property, the things that they have heard you say yourself at some other place. A capable and superior look is the natural accompaniment of this type of character.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Character, Air, Knowing

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• Money doesn't give you any license to relax. It gives you an opportunity to use all your abilities, free of financial worries, to go forward, and to use your superior advantages and talents to help others.

  Rose Kennedy

  Money, Helping Others, Opportunity

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• Sex and race, because they are easy and visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labour on which this system still depends.

  Gloria Steinem

  Sex, Race, Differences

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• Cuvier had even in his address & manner the character of a superior Man, much general power & eloquence in conversation & great variety of information on scientific as well as popular subjects. I should say of him that he is the most distinguished man of talents I have ever known on the continent: but I doubt if He be entitled to the appellation of a Man of Genius.

  Humphry Davy

  Character, Science, Men

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• Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than, and superior to, brute force.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Race, Law, Force

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa”

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• The adversary she found herself forced to fight was not worth matching or beating; it was not a superior ability which she would have found honour in challenging; it was ineptitude - a grey spread of cotton that seemed soft and shapeless, that could offer no resistance to anything or anybody, yet managed to be a barrier in her way. She stood, disarmed, before the riddle of what made this possible, she could find no answer.

  Ayn Rand

  Fighting, Challenges, Ineptitude

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• There was, I think, never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.153, Routledge

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• No democracy is born perfect, and none ever gets to be perfect. Yet democracy is superior to authoritarian and totalitarian regimes because, unlike them, democracy is perfectible.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Perfect, Democracy, Regimes

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• Misery is evil; quarreling, a misfortune. There is only one possibility of avoiding both: a clear division of society. [Otherwise] the strong tyrannize the weak, the intelligent frighten the stupid, the inferior resist the superior, and the young mock the old.

  Xunzi

  Strong, Stupid, Intelligent

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