Quotes About Superiority

Insecure people put others down to raise themselves up.

Da pausa, da paz ou da trégua, do presente que olha com desdém para todo o passado, do agora que se acha superior a qualquer antes, é facílimo proclamar com soberba: "Eu ter-me-ia recusado, eu ter-me-ia revoltado", e sentir-se assim íntegro e puro.

If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species might appear, on earth or elsewhere, man would use every means at his disposal to destroy it.

Po?i oare s? te sustragi timpului t?u? Po?i s? fii superior sau inferior, po?i s? lup?i împotriva lui cum încetasem noi s? o facem: pân? la urm? el te prinde îns?, ?i te înseamn? cu pecetea lui.

We're not number one, but we're number one in thinking we are number one.

turn on a man, humiliate him, wound his pride, crush him under foot and think no more of the matter than if he had stepped on a worm. And

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

I am one of those women with a regrettable tendency to take on the responsibilities of the world. Regrettable, because it leads to meddling in what's really none of my business and endless fretting that wears me out without accomplishing anything. I suppose I like to feel I'm indispensable, which nobody is. It's a form of egotism, a superiority complex, perhaps.

Life is getting what you want, and I'm better at life than you are.

Smiley Bone: You can't feel safe unless there's something to be safe against! Phoney Bone: Exactly! People like to be victims! There's a certain unassailable moral superiority about it...

It interests me how we find ways to feel superior to another person, another group of people. It happens everywhere, and all the time. Whatever we call it, I think it's the lowest part of who we are, this need to find someone else to put down.

How is it that you should feel so vastly superior whenever you do not happen to enter into or understand your neighbour's thoughts when, as a matter of fact, your not being able to do so is less a sign of folly in your neighbour than of incompleteness in yourself?

The desire to be seen as superior and singular- and, conversely, but similarly, inferior and individual, is a big topic...They have a term for the syndrome- it is called terminal uniqueness...we all refuse to be part of the crowd, to walk in the middle of the road in the safety of others. We all think were special. But the problem is, as I point out to Dr. Singer all the time, I actually am special.

Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.

The act of saying I forgive you, it's like saying you are less than me and I have the moral or superior upper hand.

Humans, in their blindness, think intelligence has one path - theirs.

What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.

Unwittingly, the feminists acknowledge the superiority of the male sex by wishing to become like men.

A society is patriarchal to the degree that it promotes male privilege by being male dominated, male identified, and male centered. It is also organized around an obsession with control and involves as one of its key aspects the oppression of women.... If men occupy superior positions, it's a short leap to the idea that men must be superior...[and that] whatever men do will tend to be seen as having greater value.

Who is Baine?" Nella asked. "My computer," Dr. Laas said. "A man I had an affair with programmed the voice in before he left. I told him to go, you see, and this was his revenge. Baine sounds just like him." "Do not insult me," Baine answered. " I am a thousand times superior to your fly-by-night lover. He is now in jail on Station 1217, by the way, for indecent exposure." "Really?" Dr. Laas brightened. "How delightful.

Tú que eres sublime. Olímpica. Tú que eres una obra maestra, (…). Eres un arco demasiado grande para tan lamentables arqueros

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The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself.