Quotes About Superiority

Que la mayor prueba de afecto era presisamente demostrar que esa ausencia no le ponia en inferioridad de condiciones frente a los otros

Even an E-type Jaguar looks merely flash beside a really smart pony and trap.

Poets generally love cats -- because poets have no delusions about their own superiority.

The secret impetus behind legalism is its competitiveness. The point is not just to win: it's to beat everyone else.

Every bar that's set to prove human superiority to orcas seems to be as easy for the whales to jump as the hurdles set out for them at SeaWorld. Orcas fit every definition for humanity humans have come up with that doesn't require opposable thumbs.

The very distinction between "high" and "low" culture was itself looking increasingly shaky, a product of an earlier era of elite intellectual self-confidence and benevolent moral superiority.41

As the nation has learned time and again, it is American military preparedness and superiority, in combination with a proactive and prudent foreign policy, that are likely to serve as a deterrent to military conflict and prevent large-scale, long-lasting wars. Should war occur—and at times war is unavoidable—the United States must ensure that its young service personnel are the best trained and equipped on the face of the earth.

Para nosotros ningún momento es completo en sí mismo. Cada momento se ve adulterado, empañado por lo que recordamos que ha sido y lo que anticipamos que será. En cada momento de nuestra vida la flecha del tiempo nos mantiene inocentes y moribundos, y por eso creemos que somos superiores a los demás animales.

After September 11, I wondered rhetorically midway through a column what we in the West are prepared to die for, and got a convoluted e-mail back from a French professor explaining that the fact that Europeans weren't prepared to die for anything was the best evidence of their superiority: they were building a post-historical utopia - a Europe it would not be necessary to die for. But sometimes you die anyway.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

The British suffer from a most unfortunate superiority complex - unjustified even under Victoria and most certainly hopelessly out-of-date today.

Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.

Don't plead with anyone if you were not at fault, you'll only look inferior, stupid and funny, bolster your ego by doing the undoing.

The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority.

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Male superiority in former days was easily demonstrated, because if a woman questioned her husband's he could beat her. From superiority in this respect others were thought to follow. Men were more reasonable than women, more inventive, less swayed b

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

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

Women are superior to men. I don't even think we're equal.

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

The person, who causes the downfall of a noble woman... who causes loss to his friend...who despite of his superiority is ignorant; is called a fallen man.

Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

we go through life grumbling about what should be at the expense of accepting what is. Within that bubble of delusion, we grant ourselves an autonomy and superiority we have not earned. We imagine how much better the world would be if we had the power to make the decisions. We don't.