Quotes About Superiority

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming one's superiority in the face of one's diminished influence.

The superiority of the Greeks seems not so much the result of climate and society, as of the simplicity of their end and the uniformity of their means.

The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.

Though men of delicate taste be rare, they are easily to be distinguished in society by the soundness of their understanding, and the superiority of their faculties above the rest of mankind.

There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

Ever since her being turned into a Churchill, she has out-Churchill'd them all in high and mighty claims.

Two people pass each other. As one looks upon the other's skin color, the other is looking back at their appearance. Both justifying, how better and righteous they are, in their own insecurities.

I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.

And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.

Spiritual superiority [consists in] deep dedication ... in the form of the most rigorous training, as commitment, resistance, solitude, and love.

When we interact with others the ego manifests. We have to show that we're superior or that we know more, are more spiritual, evolved - or that we're the worst, everyone is better.

If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class.

I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler.

Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.

As a victim, the Savage possessed, for Bernard, this enormous superiority over the others: that he was accessible. One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments what we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.

Bernard gave his orders in the sharp, rather arrogant and even offensive tone of one who does not feel himself too secure in his superiority.

The rich never have a chance of being neighborly to their equals. The best they can do is feel mawkish about the sufferings of their inferiors, which they can never begin to understand, and to be patronizingly kind.

Kitaplara bakarken, Uzaysal iliÅŸkilerde durum ne? diye sordu araÅŸt?rmac?. /.../ Uzay hâlâ oradayd?, ama üstünlüÄŸünü kaybetmiÅŸti. /.../ Yeterince var gibi görünüyor. AraÅŸt?rmac? zaman hakk?nda ne hissettiÄŸimi sorduÄŸunda bütün söyleyebileceÄŸim buydu.

Hubiérase dicho que un dolor supremo lo hacía superior a los temores ordinarios.

Being simply "better than average" is not good enough. You have to be head and shoulders above the crowd to win a minus-sum game.

Pétri de vanité il avait encore plus de cette espèce d'orgueil qui fait avouer avec la même indifférence les bonnes comme les mauvaises actions, suite d'un sentiment de supériorité, peut-être imaginaire. Tiré d'une lettre particulière

What I've loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You've broken it with a word, so I must die.

and I will say to you, rude as it may seem, `My brother, you sacrifice greatly to pride; you may be above others, but above you there is God.