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Quotes About Superiority

Sometimes she couldn't tolerate a man's physical superiority. No wonder they were so damned macho.
~ Margaret Way
And white women can reform nothing until and unless they are willing to relinquish their caste privilege, those codes of racial and social superiority they extol in their men and instill in their children.
~ Margo Jefferson
When a man loses superiority, he loses potency. That's what all this talk about castrating women is about. Castrating women are those who refuse to pretend men are better than they are and better than women are. The simple truth — that men are only equal — can undermine a culture more devastatingly than any bomb. Subversion is telling the truth.
~ Marilyn French
The weak ones are there to justify the strong.
~ Marilyn Manson
Envy, is Pride's greatest Fear.
~ Anthony Liccione
If only the fit survive and if the fitter they are the longer they survive, then Volvox must have demonstrated its superb fitness more conclusively than any higher animal ever has.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence of superiority and inferiority.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
~ Francis Bacon
In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior.
~ Charlotte Lennox
In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.
~ Unknown
Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.
~ Honore de Balzac
Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.
~ Samuel Johnson
It is not aloofness, superiority. It's a protection. Who in this ravaged battlefield doesn't want to gather close her comrades?
~ Megan Abbott, Dare Me
We are both great men but I have succeeded better in keeping it a profound secret than he has.
~ Bill Nye
If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
~ Bill Shankly
As much as I HATE being wrong at least I admit that sh.. and that makes me WAY better than you.
~ Unknown
Excellence has always been achieved by those who dared believe that something inside them is superior to circumstances. Believe in yourself.
~ Unknown
Jealousy means that you have low self-esteem, and therefore, consider yourself inferior to others
~ Unknown
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world; and, whatever apparent disadvantages he may suffer in the comparis
~ Samuel Johnson
Fear is a manifested lie, created by you influenced by others beliefs. Fear doesn't exist because it is an illusion. Fear is a lie which is created to make you think that you're not worth more than you actually are. Fear is a lie enforced to control and make you tremble. Fear was made for superiority gain.
~ Unknown
Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior
~ Thucydides
If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.
~ Marilyn Monroe