Quotes About Superiority

I should add that all that my teachers would later teach me of the superiority of character-driven comedy over situation comedy never managed to uproot from me every child's conviction: that those who hurl cream pies at each other's faces are funny in a far more relaxing, and, therefore, at bottom more satisfying way, than the more subtle forms of what is called "wit." In fact, it is quite remarkable that these latter forms usually grow stale in less than a generation.

Simon hated her for that. Perhaps it was automatic. Her appearance alone made her different from him, and human beings had always feared and hated anyone who was different. Two thousand years of history saw it being repeated over and over, the perpetual struggle of one race, or tribe, or creed, against another... each one thinking they were right, superior, morally justified, or chosen by God. Simon saw himself as normal, Laura as abnormal.

People instinctively let down their guard when they saw a limp, an illness, a flaw in someone else. Not out of compassion but because it made them feel superior. Stronger. Those people, Gamache knew, did not always last long. It was not a useful instinct.

Of course the opposite is also true. No one is as good as the best thing.

Beneath his cheerful and friendly manner there peeked every now and then a condescension, an awareness that he had a lot and others had less. And somehow that made them less.

Power seems to confer on its possessor a mantle of superiority, specialness, and sexual potency, which the envious person desperately wants because he feels himself on some level to be inferior, unimportant, and impotent.

To strive with an equal is dangerous with a superior, mad with an inferior, degrading.

I love [my friends]. They're brilliant, but I'm the best.

The only sign of "superiority" I acknowledge in Man is goodness.

The masses do not like those who surpass them in any regard. The average man envies and hates those who are different.

The common people?—pah. What are they to us? You and I, mein Freund, we are lords of the earth, the great ones, the major men, the makers of supreme fictions.

Tommy sniffed the spring breeze like a supercilious stag.

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. —HENRY C . L I NK

Productive leaders communicate the superiority and the benefits of their ideas.

He (a teacher at school) was the epitome of the Oxonian code of effortless superiority whereby to be seen trying really hard to achieve something was in many ways worse than actually failing it.

Talking about me behind my back? That means my life is obviously interesting than yours.

Just wanted to be the first one to wish you a happy birthday so I can feel superior to your other well-wishers.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

I make bad bi...es look like basic bi...es.

The hand that gives is superior to the hands that receive. Be grateful for all you have as others pray for what you already have.

You think to judge me, MacKinnon? I've littered the ground wi' the corpses of men like you."Iain raised his blade and smiled. "You've never met a man like me.

The worst reason to do magic is the desire to display your superiority to your fellow humans.

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

There is no glory in otustripping donkeys.