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Quotes About Superiority

Sólo la abstención es noble y alta, porque reconoce que la realización es siempre inferior y que la obra hecha es siempre la sombra grotesca de la obra soñada.
~ Fernando Pessoa
You act like you think you got wiser blood than anybody else," he said, "but you ain't! I'm the one has it. Not you. Me." Haze didn't say anything. He stood there for an instant, small in the
~ Flannery O'Connor
I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.
~ Don Johnson
Nobody is faster than me.
~ Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Maybe there is no player who is faster than me in the world.
~ Adama Traore
Not only do I do things so much better than all of my fellow 'Divas,' I make being bad look so good.
~ Michelle McCool
I think the reason I'm the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world is I beat everyone in my division.
~ Demetrious Johnson
We know that all interracial groups in South Africa are relationships in which whites are superior, blacks inferior. So as a prelude, whites must be made to realize that they are only human, not superior. Same with blacks. They must be made to realize that they are also human, not inferior.
~ Steven Biko
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
~ Bruce Barton
The day is not far distant when three Stars and Stripes at three equidistant points will mark our territory: one at the North Pole, another at the Panama Canal, and the third at the South Pole. The whole hemisphere will be ours in fact as, by virtue of our superiority of race, it already is ours morally.
~ William Howard Taft
Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
~ Charles Darwin
We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.
~ Bernard de Mandeville
It should seem, then, that the nature of society dictates another, a higher branch, whose superiority arises from its being the interested and natural conservator of the universal interest.
~ Ezra Stiles
Other people will say different, but I'm the best Georgia Tech wide receiver.
~ Demaryius Thomas
That the Hawkings were eccentric, even odd, was well known. That they were aloof, convinced of their own intellectual superiority over the rest of the human race, was also widely recognized in St. Albans, where they were regarded with a suspicion and awe.
~ Jane Hawking
There is no African, myself included, who does not appreciate the help of the wider world, but we do question whether aid is genuine or given in the spirit of affirming one's cultural superiority.
~ Uzodinma Iweala
If you believe you are the city on the hill, the world's best hope, it is tempting also to believe that outside your boundaries are barbarians.
~ Linda Colley
In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.
~ Walter Bagehot
When those of Jewish blood exhibit moral or intellectual superiority, genius or special talent, we feel pride in them, even if they have abjured the faith like Spinoza, Marx, Disraeli or Heine. Despite the meditations of pundits or the decrees of council, our own instincts and acts, and those of others, have defined for us the term 'Jew.'
~ Louis D. Brandeis
The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.
~ Winston Churchill
When you're the best, and you know you're the best, and your contemporaries know you're the best, that's a terrific edge.
~ Raymond Floyd
It's easy for us to congratulate ourselves on our own moral superiority when compared to the 1930s, but I'm not sure that we're actually right about that. In most of the West, we simply haven't been tested in the same way. And when we are tested, we often fail.
~ Timothy D. Snyder
To talk about the superiority of an ethnic group on the basis of some points of difference on IQ tests is idiotic.
~ Charles Murray
I belong to that small group of chosen people, who because of their superior knowledge and talents are far above ordinary human rules and limitations. We have advanced beyond such conventional notions as 'good' and 'bad'.
~ Robert van Gulik