Quotes About Superiority

On the bright side, Percy said, both Jason and I outrank you, Octavian. So we can both tell you to shut up.

The first lesson every child of Athena learned: Mom was the best at everything, and you should never, ever suggest otherwise.

Nico enjoyed how nervous the Romans acted around him, even though they were older and bigger and more experienced fighters.

The good thing is Jason and I both outrank you so we can both tell you to shut up.

The Olympians were a reminder that there was always someone better than you, so you shouldn't get a big head.

Hubris means deadly pride. Thinking you can do things better than anyone else.

You have too high an opinion of the high command

Most people our brought up to believe they are as good as the person next to them, I was told I was better.

She accused me of having a thwarted sense of superiority. Said that was the cause of all my present unhappiness. I had a high degree, she said, of linguistic mastery, as well as an intuitive understanding—nuts and bolts, nontheoretical—of psychology.

Security, the dignity we loved, were nowhere. So ugliness boiled up within us and resentment at the outer world which we were told was responsible for our catastrophes. The Germans in their pride and their despair began to make a fetish of their enforced isolation from the security of the normal world. It is a truism that the wider world a man feels himself to be a part of, the less likely he is to be seduced by notions of the superiority of some narrow group.

I felt slightl superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends.

Erik said: "But the Aryan race must be superior—we rule the world!" "Your Nazi friends don't know any history," Father said. "The Ancient Egyptians built the pyramids when Germans were living in caves. Arabs ruled the world in the Middle Ages—the Muslims were doing algebra when German princes could not write their own names. It's nothing to do with race.

He did not share his father's belief that the Germans were a superior type of human, but on the other hand he could see that German mastery of Europe would be no bad thing. The French had many brilliant talents—cooking, painting, fashion, wine—but they were not good at government. French officials saw themselves as some kind of aristocracy, and thought it was perfectly all right to

Barrow, who evidently had never seen an atlas, felt superior to Descartes, Rembrandt, and Beethoven.

Bogge made bad decisions because he was playing some other game, making himself look good or trying to be superior or something

El tono de un gobierno lo establecían quienes ocupaban sus puestos más altos, y Bak no estaba sino imitando el estilo del líder supremo, que hacía gala de la terca superioridad de un fanático religioso.

Now there was something in the way Ned stood and looked that undermined Rollo's sense of superiority.

The fundamental message is self-righteous, and it takes this form: 'T. S. Eliot is a homophobe and I am not. Therefore, I am a better person than Eliot.' To which the proper response is: 'But T. S. Eliot could really write, and you can't.

The belief in the sanctity of one's idiosyncrasy—especially if it be a group idiosyncrasy, and therefore sustained and intensified by mutual flattery—is rapidly converted into a belief in its superiority. More

A power nap, is when you sleep on someone who's weaker than you

Wearing spectacles makes men conceited, because spectacles raise them to a degree of sensual perfection which is far above the power of their own nature.

The Germans are indeed the economically and politically strongest power in Europe. But their superiority does not equal the past and present superiority of the Americans.

Those who live in the best cliffs think they are better than us. That is always man's attitude when he has power.

One that excels the quirks of blazoning pens.