Quotes About Superiority

The more overtly unshakeable someone's beliefs are, the more diminished they seem to become, because they have stopped questioning, and the not-questioning can sometimes be accompanied by an attitude of moral superiority. The belligerent dogmatism of the current cultural moment is a case in point. A bit of humility wouldn't go astray.

You couldn't educate hate out of people who needed someone less than themselves, someone they could point at and measure their lives by. They

Good manners, in the end, are nothing but the way in which respect is expressed. Since respect, in its turn, is a feeling inspired by the presence of an admitted superior, wherever hierarchies are absent—real or fictitious, but revered—good manners die out. Rudeness is a democratic product.

None of us finds it difficult to love the neighbor who seems inferior to us. But to love someone we know is superior is another thing.

There is something definitively vile about the man who only admits equals, who does not tirelessly seek out his betters.

The most repulsive and grotesque spectacle is that of the superiority of a living professor over a dead genius.

Das widerlichste und groteskeste der Schauspiele ist das der Überlegenheit des lebenden Professors über das tote Genie.

Um idiota sempre encontra um idiota ainda maior para admirá-lo.

The moment someone tells you you're not good enough, is the moment you know you're better than them.

We're not arrogant, we just believe we're the best band in the world.

Beni pek sevmezlerdi. Fakat, cahil olduklar? için, korkuyla.kar???k bir sayg? beslerlerdi bana. Sözlerimi hiç anlamazlard?; fakat gene de ba?lar?n? sallarlard? durmadan. Ben de ayaklar?m? uzat?r, üstünlü?ümün verdi?i gururla rahat ederdim bu evde. Y?llard?r da, rahat etmek istemedi?im için çok seyrek u?ruyordum onlara.

We human beings seem always to have found it comforting to have someone to look down on—a bottom level of fellow creatures who are very vulnerable, but who can somehow be blamed and punished for all or any troubles. We need this lowest class as much as we need equals to team with and to compete against and superiors to look to for direction and help.

Human competitiveness and territoriality were often at the root of particularly horrible fashions in oppression. We human beings seem always to have found it comforting to have someone to took down on—a bottom level of fellow creatures who are very vulnerable, but who can somehow be blamed and punished for all or any troubles. We need this lowest class as much as we need equals to team with and to compete against and superiors to look to for direction and help.

They look at us as though we smell and they don't.

Ludzie maj? pot??n? potrzeb?, ?eby czu? si? lepszymi od innych. Niewa?ne, kim s?, musz? mie? kogo?, kto by?by gorszy od nich.

Asher has learned that people have a powerful need to feel superior to others. It doesn't matter who they are – they have to find someone who's beneath them.

This is a land of neurotic egotists, each of whom, as soon as he finds himself among others, starts to instruct, criticize, offend, and show off his undoubted superiority.

No, no, people in our country don't have the ability to club together to form a community, not even under the banner of the penny bun. This is a land of neurotic egotists, each of whom, as soon as he finds himself among others, starts to instruct, criticize, offend, and show off his undoubted superiority.

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other religions were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

Superiority -- doing things a little better than anybody else can do them.

Any man who criticizes my suicide and passes judgment on me with an expression of superiority, declaring (without offering the least help) that I should have gone on living my full complement of days, is assuredly a prodigy among men quite capable of tranquilly urging the Emperor to open a fruit shop.

Forget about all the women in the world. I can't even deal with one girl next door and I'm in such pain I feel like I'm going to die. And never mind my superior capabilities—I don't know the first thing about governing a kingdom. And as for people gazing at me in wonderment, well, all they do is deceive me. All that happens is they swindle me. I'm endlessly afraid of people. I am continually awed by them.

Your improvement may bother people who are used to you existing below their level. They may openly campaign for you to get your life together, but they secretly relish their superiority over you.