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Quotes About Superiority

It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.
~ John Ruskin
In a blind town, the one-eyed man is king.
~ Ken Harrelson
It is unfortunate that superior talent and superior men are so seldom united.
~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Not to be egotistical, but I don't think there is a man on this planet who can beat me
~ Mike Tyson
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
~ Publilius Syrus
I have often thought that the nature of women was interior to that of men in general, but superior in particular.
~ Sir Fulke Greville
Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves, And therefore are they very dangerous.
~ William Shakespeare
In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.
~ Albert Camus
I believe that Man is not the most perfect Being but One, rather that as there are many Degrees of Beings his Inferiors, so there are many Degrees of Beings superior to him.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.
~ James A. Baldwin
Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.
~ Joseph Joubert
As for will, woman should be considered superior to man for Eve ate of the apple for love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because she asked him.
~ Donna Woolfolk Cross
The man who insists he as good as anybody, believes he is better.
~ E. W. Howe
The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
Haughtiness is the high heel shoe of the low men!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and the colored man is no longer willing to endure his inferiority.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Man,--the aristocrat amongst the animals.
~ Heinrich Heine
Who is king in the world of the blind when there isn't even a one eyed man?
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.
~ Sydney Smith
Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.
~ William Hazlitt
In some respects woman is superior to man. She is more tender-hearted, more receptive, her intuition is more intense.
~ Abdu'l-Bahá
What I've loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You've broken it with a word, so I must die.
~ Alexandre Dumas
There was, I think, never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle.
~ Bertrand Russell
There is absolutely no way the best team in the NCAA could even dream of beating the worst team in the NBA? You're talking about men vs. boys.
~ Bill Walton