Quotes About Superiority

Education is...[A process] which makes one rogue cleverer than another.

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated.

It is impossible to enter into fellowship with God when you are in a critical mood. Criticism serves to make you harsh, vindictive, and cruel, and leaves you with the soothing and flattering idea that you are somehow superior to others.

Criticism serves to make you harsh, vindictive, and cruel, and leaves you with the soothing and flattering idea that you are somehow superior to others.

How do you like that, Corbray? You're upstaging yourself.

Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free.

The abuser's worth is derived from a sense of one-upmanship and winning over. If the partner accomplishes something, the abuser views her accomplishment

C. S. Lewis once said, "A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.

I don't do pity kisses," she says. "I don't do pity anything. Pity is patronizing. Pity is an assumption of superiority." "That sounds like your dad." "It is my dad, but he's right. He says kindness is better. Kindness is the most important thing of all. Pity is an insult. Kindness is a miracle.

Richard couldn't even feign compassion. It seemed to Thompson that the general impression Richard was trying to convey, not just with his answers but with the tone of his voice and his body language, was that he was above all this.

It's like he knows he's better than you but doesn't look down on you for it because he knows it's not your fault.

Quando hai vissuto a lungo come me tendi a pensare di aver ascoltato di tutto, di non poterti più stupire di nulla. Ti viene pure voglia di vantarti della tua esperienza del mondo e poi, ogni tanto, ti ritrovi di fronte a qualcosa che ti catapulta fuori dal bozzolo di goduta superiorità, ricordandoti da capo che della vita non capisci un bel niente.

An identity of being 'on the left' has become a lazy way of feeling morally superior; an identity of being 'on the right' has become a lazy way of feeling 'realistic'.

They are the people who currently dominate the media. An identity of being 'on the left' has become a lazy way of feeling morally superior;

Una amonestación no es una condenación, es un llamado. Las palabras de exhortación no son un juicio, son un estímulo a seguir al Señor. La confrontación no es una sentencia, es una advertencia. Nos hablamos unos a otros con la Palabra de Dios, no porque seamos superiores o mejores, ni porque seamos capaces de arreglarle la vida a los demás. ¡No! Enseñamos, animamos, amonestamos, corregimos y exhortamos porque Dios nos ha comisionado hacerlo.

Friedrich von Bernhardi, one of Germany's most influential military thinkers. Bernhardi believed the German people were destined to become the master race, who would prevail over lesser breeds and rule the world.

those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.

Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.

Why you? - (...) I'm the best. - Modest of you. - I am the best. Modesty has nothing to say about it.

Como muchos hombres inteligentes, cree que los demás son idiotas.

I'm not conceited. I'm just honest about being so much better than other people.

The English are a great race,' he told me once. 'But they have a deep down belief that they are the best of all peoples.

We try to live and let live, but underneath it, we're left with a smug sense of superiority about ourselves and vague disgust for others who don't measure up.

I don't want to be superior to anyone for being afraid. We already have a culture built on that.