Quotes About Superiority

Why did she feel the need to sneer? Because people who talked about books or pictures or films made her feel ignorant and out of her depth.

I found her a little irritating – she was one of those rather self-righteous women with a heightened belief in their own moral superiority

They need you. They wouldn't feel superior without someone to despise. They're inadequate.

Private schools do confer other advantages, of course: whether it be networks, or a sense of confidence that can shade into a poisonous sense of social superiority.

I think, in many people's minds, the Confederate battle flag is not only a memorial to our ancestors, which is perfectly OK, but also a symbol of white superiority and an inclination for people to believe that even slavery would've been OK.

You can't pretend there has ever been anyone come close to doing what I did. Nobody you could name could touch me, and I'm talking about nobody who's around now, nobody who was around in my prime, and nobody who was around any time you can mention outta your mouth.

If you look at Myspace, Facebook was a better product. It's as simple as that.

I want every dish to be a ten.

When we go out and play the teams that we need to beat that aren't near our level, then we've got to go out there and blow them out.

A few years, there are teams that are just dominant over everyone. Those years are few and far.

Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.

If you have a famous parent, you know that being famous doesn't make you superior to anyone else. It just means people smile at you more. Everyone was fawning all over my father, but of course, the way you look at your parents when you're a teen is often with a... more critical eye.

Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.

I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards.

The only story my grandfather tells me about his days in the NFL is how much better he was than me.

Did you deem yourself strong because you were able to twist the heads off civilised folk, poor weaklings with muscles like rotten string? Hell! Break the neck of a wild Cimmerian bull before you call yourself strong.

In this connection we might ask how God can be moral or good unless he believes in some Being superior to himself?

he talked until their food arrived, littering his chat with references to 'ninety k' and 'a quarter of a mill', and every sentence was angled, like a mirror, to show him in the best possible light: his cleverness, his quick thinking, his besting of slower, stupider yet more senior colleagues...

The usual strategy for coping with the discomfort of knowing that others are superior in some way is to try to reduce the inequalities by bringing the more fortunate down or by preventing him from being more fortunate. This is the strategy of envy.

it has always been my temperament to prefer a tiny amount of the excellent to a plenitude of the mediocre...

his faster, more powerful battle cruisers would gobble up armored cruisers "like an armadillo let loose on an ant-hill.

The better idea doesn't have to win just because it is a better idea.

one human being judged groups of other human beings less worthy than his own. The

nothing can compete with the vulgarity of snobbish or bought correct taste.