Quotes About Superiority

Put any two people together and each will seek ways of feeling superior to the other. If a ship went down in the Pacific and a single sailor managed to swim to a desert island, would he be pleased to see, ten minutes later, another sailor emerging from the surf? Quite possibly - but only if the new arrival accepted that the first man was now a landed aristocrat while he himself was an illegal immigrant.

As royalty, celebrities and the rich have always known, a smile is the most subtle and satisfying way of shitting on the inferior.

Ralph Waldo Emerson observed that there are always men who like to feel a natural superiority which is not dependent on accomplish­ment and does not need to be proved.

The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.

You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the effort of men who are better than you. —LUDWIG VON MISES

Roddy outgunned Cunningham in the brain department. He hung

He'd met Dee briefly and didn't like him; he was one of those arrogant European immortals who thought they were better than anyone else, just because they were older than the United States.

And in zombie warfare, air superiority is about as useful as nuts on a nun.

I think; therefore, I am above average.

They detest you only because you stand so high above other men, and that is something that mediocre souls can never endure. And yet in each one of us lies the latent faculty of surpassing others. Of that I am sure.

Americans have a severe disease — worse than AIDS. It's called the winner's complex.

She would always believe that he was someone else, that he wasn't himself but some fanciful idea of a foreign person; she would always feel like she was someone special because she had condescended to be with someone everyone else hated. His presence would prove to the world that she was a good person, an educated person, a liberal person.

If we know how to adapt, we end up being superior.

La sonrisa de superioridad con que me enfrentaba a ellos me salía torcida.

In every immediate way, the natives had the upper hand. They outnumbered the survivors by more than ten to one. They were healthy and well fed. None suffered burns, head injuries, or gangrene.

As a society, you were unwilling to reflect upon the shared pain that united you with those who attacked you. You retreated into myths of your own difference, assumptions of your own superiority. And you acted out these beliefs on the stage of the world, so that the entire planet was rocked by the repercussions of your tantrums, not least my family, now facing war thousands of miles away.

su necesidad de sentirse superior a los demás le da el derecho de ser un transgresor. No siente obligación alguna de respetar leyes, reglas, costumbres o compromisos.

Según Katz, el perfil psicológico de Hugo Chávez define un caso extremo de «trastorno de personalidad narcisista». Según explica Katz, al presidente venezolano lo aquejan un falso sentido de superioridad, la idea de ser único, excepcional y tener derechos que otros no tienen, recurrentes delirios de grandeza, una gran necesidad de ser admirado que coexiste con sentimientos de minusvalía, menosprecio a sí mismo y ocasionales ataques de derrotismo y fracaso.

Además, su necesidad de sentirse superior a los demás le da el derecho de ser un transgresor. No siente obligación alguna de respetar leyes, reglas, costumbres o compromisos.

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

Ottoman Empire. "The West," writes Huntington, "won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion…but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do."29

Charat Singh was feeling kind, though he did not relax the grin which symbolized six thousand years of racial and class superiority.

Why, why is anyone superior to another? Why are we all sinners?

It is useless to talk with those who do not understand one and troublesome to talk with those who criticize from a feeling of superiority. Especially one-sided persons are troublesome. Few are accomplished in many arts and most cling narrowly to their own opinion.