Quotes About Superiority

There is a subtle difference between Confidence and Arrogance. You see, Arrogance makes you think that everyone is below you, while Confidence makes you realize that no one is above you. Once you realize this differentiation, you'll become Confident, and will earn the respect from society. Good luck!

The European colonization efforts toward the Americas, for example, operated from the assumption that the enculturation of indigenous peoples was justified because European culture was superior (Barongan et al., 1997). Forcing the colonized to adopt European beliefs and customs was seen as civilizing them.

It is important to understand that prejudice by people of color occurs under an umbrella of White racial superiority and supremacy. Raised in the United States, they are equally prone to inherit the stereotypes and biases of the society. Although people of color can be prejudiced and discriminate, they do not have the power to oppress on a large-scale basis (Spradlin & Parsons, 2008; Sue, 2003).

Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Do you know what it's like going through life being better than everybody? It's hard.

Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists'

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.

One day's life of a lion is preferable to hundred years of a jackal.

Perhaps a copy could also be superior to the original, create a new reality by avoiding old mistakes.

The vast differences in power contributed to faulty social theories of these differences that are still with us today. When a society is economically dominant, it is easy for its members to assume that such dominance reflects a deeper superiority--whether religious, racial, genetic, cultural, or institutional--rather than an accident of timing or geography.

He criticizes himself in front of others. When people are nice to him, he distances or somehow undermines the relationship. Alex tries to maintain the status quo. When the environment becomes too supportive, he alters the situation so he can go back to that comfortable state of shame and dejection. If he feels superior or equal for a moment, he somehow manages to return to a lesser position.

Snobbery works in both directions—if you're rich, thinking you're better than those who aren't is as equally lame as being broke and thinking you're better than those who are rich.

But then, the guy was a Feline. Effing cats always thought they were better than anyone else. Bastards. They washed their faces with their own spit, for crap's sake.

Roy might know who James Joyce is, I'm not sure, but it wouldn't matter. You mention books to Roy and he thinks you're trying to act superior.

Hortense and Berthe nodded, as though profoundly impressed by the wisdom of their mother's pronouncements. She had long since convinced them of the absolute inferiority of men, whose sole function was to marry and to pay.

In the first place, he had by that time lost the benefit of his early education: continual hard work, begun soon and concluded late, had extinguished any curiosity he once possessed in pursuit of knowledge, and any love for books or learning. His childhood's sense of superiority

ona je tako beskrajno iznad njih - iznad svakoga na svijetu, nije li tako, Nelly?

Je voyais qu'il étaient remplis d'une admiration stupide : elle est si démesurément supérieure à eux ... à n'importe qui sur terre, n'est-ce pas ?

Superiority to fate Is difficult to learn. 'Tis not conferred by any, But possible to earn A pittance at a time, Until, to her surprise, The soul with strict economy Subsists till Paradise.

I flash a fake smile of my own, refraining from telling her what I'm really thinking: that it's an unwise karmic move to go around feeling superior to other mothers. Because before she knows it, her little angel could become a tattooed teenager hiding joints in her designer handbag and doling out blow jobs in the backseat of her BMW.

You display inordinate pride for someone who has completed a task which could have been performed by a lesser primate in a shorter time.

Ik weet waar dit allemaal om te doen is, Opal.' 'O, is dat zo?' 'Ja. Je bent nog steeds beledigd omdat ik op de universiteit de medaille voor natuurwetenschappen gewonnen heb'... Foaly grijnsde voldaan. Ook al zag het er nog zo beroerd uit, hij was toch nog in staat het allerirritantste wezen onder de wereld te zijn, als hij dat wilde.