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Quotes About Superiority

Men seem loath to concede the superiority of another human being, even in such trivial realms as municipal geography. The reason, perhaps, is that during human evolution males who too readily sought reconciliation after a fight, or otherwise needlessly submitted to others, saw their status drop, and with it their inclusive fitness.
~ Robert Wright
I rode a horse, didn't I, when I had one? Was it because I was better than the horse that I bent it to my will? I'd used dogs to hunt for me, and hawks on occasion. What right had I to command them? There I sat, stripping the hide off a porcupine to eat it. I spoke slowly. 'Are we better than this porcupine that we are about to eat? Or is it only that we have bested it today?
~ Robin Hobb
This was done by someone who believes himself very clever, and believes others are very stubid.
~ Robin Hobb
Cecil flashed a grin. "Quite. Plus your rather irritating habit of treating your superior officers as your, ah . . ." Cecil paused, apparently groping again for just the right word. "Equals?" Miles hazarded. "Cattle," Cecil corrected judiciously. "To be driven to your will. You're a manipulator par excellence, Vorkosigan. I've been studying you for three years now, and your group dynamics are fascinating. Whether
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Pelagia put her hands on her hips, taking advantage of the superiority implicit in the fact that she was standing and he lying down.
~ Louis de Bernieres
The self-anointed superior races, drunk on Darwin and nationalist hyperbole, besotted with eugenics and beguiled by myth, were winding up machines of genocide that soon would be unleashed upon a world already weary to the heart of such infinite foolery and contemptible vainglory.
~ Louis de Bernieres
The influence of [the Geneva Bible] on the KJV was enormous. The KJV translators employed this as much as Tyndale's (of course, much of Tyndale was incorporated into the Geneva). And although King James despised the Geneva Bible, in the original preface to the KJV the Bible is quoted several times—and every time it is the Geneva version that is quoted, not the King James! This was an implicit and perhaps unwitting admission of the Geneva Bible's superiority.
~ Ron Rhodes
Últimamente la gente esta agarrando la detestable costumbre de ser menor que yo.
~ Rosa Montero
The feeling of superiority is a defect that tends to accompany a victim mentality...as if you deserved any merit for being a product of fate.
~ Rosa Montero
Whitman explicitly grounded this prescription in racism: "The nigger, like the Injun, will be eliminated; it is the law of the races, history.… A superior grade of rats come and then all the minor rats are cleared out." The whole world would benefit from US expansion: "We pant to see our country and its rule far-reaching. What has miserable, inefficient Mexico … to do with the great mission of peopling the New World with a noble race?
~ Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Anything you can do, I can do meta
~ Rudolf Carnap
Cyber Leader: Daleks, be warned. You have declared war upon the Cybermen. Dalek Sec: This is not war - this is pest control! Cyber Leader: We have five million Cybermen. How many are you? Dalek Sec: Four. Cyber Leader: You would destroy the Cybermen with four Daleks? Dalek Sec: We would destroy the Cybermen with one Dalek! You superior in only one respect. Cyber Leader: What is that? Dalek Sec: You are better at dying.
~ Russell T. Davies
A moral code was good for the Chinese whose inferior natures required such artificial means of restraint.
~ Ruth Benedict
All civilisations have a tendency toward narcissism, and the stronger the civilisation, the more clearly this tendency will appear. It spurs civilisations into conflict with others, triggering their arrogance and lust for domination.This always involves contempt for Others.
~ Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski
The possibility of this sickness is man's superiority over the animal, and this superiority distinguishes him in quite another way than does his erect walk, for it indicates infinite erectness or sublimity, that he is spirit.8 The possibility of this sickness is man's superiority over the animal; to be aware of this sickness is the Christian's superiority over the natural man; to be cured of this sickness is the Christian's
~ Soren Kierkegaard
O ineluctable superiority of northernness
~ Salman Rushdie
There are always going to be people who run faster, jump higher, dive deeper, and come up drier.
~ Darrell Royal
There is only one right in the world and that right is one's own strength.
~ Adolf Hitler
Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
~ Joseph Conrad
To use a fighter as a fighter-bomber when the strength of the fighter arm is inadequate to achieve air superiority is putting the cart before the horse.
~ Adolf Galland
Arrogance follows distribution strength.
~ Henry Blodget
Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
~ Tacitus
The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in their psychical - they were more complete human beings.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche