Quotes About Superiority

I took the test for AIDS. I began to hate people who were not sick. Those people are monsters, I would think, believing that they are well because of moral superiority, because they are good. I identified with the loneliness of the sick. I felt that there was something pure about them.

Many characters in the novel are representative of types that exist in India. He represents the caste system in India with an air of superiority, the caste system in India and the people thinking that western things are better.

Indeed it is the protean ability of Western civilization to be self-critical and self-correcting - not only in producing wealth but over the whole range of human activities - that constitutes its most decisive superiority over any of its rivals.

American audiences tend to underappreciate the British, but 240 years ago they were us: They were the most powerful nation on Earth. Their mercantile empire spanned the planet. They had the most potent and experienced army and navy the world had ever seen.

There are but few naval powers, but there are many land powers.

That always seemed the coolest thing to me. How do you use num'bers to predict things? It was like a cool way to use numbers to be better than other people. And I really liked being better than other people.

I find it alarming that people are so convinced they're the best at anything - presenting, hairdressing, getting dressed.

We're in a long line of English people pretending to be Americans and not being as good as Americans.

Honestly, if you just compare myself to Danny Garcia, I'm the better fighter.

I only want to debate people who are more powerful than I am.

I am sick of people sitting there saying, 'Daniel Bryan vs. The Miz.' He doesn't deserve to be in the ring with me. He's not at the level that I am.

But while Taya is so good, she is still no diamond. She is still no Tessa Blanchard. I am one of the best in the world!

Brandon Girtz is a tough man who can really throw the leather, but I'm on a different level.

Ben bu insanlardan daha üstünüm', diye söylendim içimden. 'Bir soylu oldu?um için de?il, daha iyi bir insan oldu?um için.

Criticism is one of the ultimate manifestations of pride because when we criticize someone else, we assume we are superior to them.

I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it.

No, you're not like me. You're better. A better person, a better goddamn everything. Now, eat your breakfast. And if you open your mouth to say you aren't everything I know you are, I'll stuff that bagel in it. Plain. Without cream cheese. Healthy food--the ultimate threat.

And he had it all over Octavian, let me tell you. Hung like a Pegasus, he was.

Men are always jealous of women who are superior to themselves.

Everyone in a codependent society has to have someone to look down upon in order to feel good about themselves.

A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.

It had taken about two centuries for the feudal system of economy to show its superiority over the slave system, Stalin said, and about a hundred years or less for the bourgeois system to prove its superiority over feudal economy. Because technological progress had now greatly accelerated the pace of development and change, however, the socialist system of economy could advance with "giant strides" and out-perform capitalism in a much shorter period.

Daily Law: No calling is superior to another. What matters is that it be tied to a personal need and inclination, and that your energy moves you toward improvement and continuous learning from experience. The Laws of Human Nature, 13: Advance with a Sense of Purpose—The Law of Aimlessness

As long as there are humans, the irrational will find its voices and means of spreading. Rationality is something to be acquired by individuals, not by mass movements or technological progress. Feeling superior and beyond it is a sure sign that the irrational is at work.