Quotes About Superiority

Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority; perfect equality affords no temptation.

In a capitalist society there are always inequalities of class and wealth. People who inherit money and property will always see themselves as being superior to those who have to work for it.

Yes, that is the equality of man. Slaughter anybody who is better than you are, and then we shall be equal soon enough. All equally dead.

Envy, bleating 'I'm as good as you', is the hotbed of Fascism.

Excellence always sells.

Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence.

All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

The mediocre always feel as if they're fighting for their lives when confronted by the excellent.

The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.

There has always been an elegance to the application of excellence.

They did not ask my permission for their mediocrity, why should I ask theirs for excellence?

Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.

Insecure people have to make excuses and put others down to feel confident. Confidence isn't walking into a room with your nose in the air, and thinking you are better than everyone else, it's walking into a room and not having to compare yourself to anyone in the first place.

Excellence has always been achieved by those who dare to believe that something inside them is superior than the circumstances.

Confidence is nothing when you aren't the best.

Aaverage is being the best of the worst and the worst of the best. To be a champion average can't be in your vocabulary.

Someone feeling like knowing everything & being the best and stuff, kinda annoying.

Atau mereka menganggap, memang beginilah bangsa kulit putih, yang merasa lebih tinggi dan lebih baik dari bangsa kulit berwarna mana pun ?

In place of an exhausting autonomy, there is the blunt admittance of dependence, and its subsequent relief. I will always aspire to contain my shit as best I can, but I am no longer interested in hiding my dependencies in an effort to appear superior to those who are more visibly undone or aching.

The idea that the Tutsi were superior because they came from elsewhere, and that the difference between them and the local population was a racial difference, was an idea of colonial origin. It was an idea shared by rival colonists, Belgians, Germans, English, all of whom were convinced that wherever in Africa there was evidence of organized state life, there the ruling groups must have come from elsewhere.

Do you imagine that the poisonous spittle of five hundred little men of your sort, hoisted on to each other's shoulders, could even drool down on to the tips of my august toes?

M. de Charlus persisted in not replying. I thought I could see a smile flicker about his lips: the smile of the man who looks down from a great height on the characters and manners of lesser men.