Quotes About Superiority

The superior confidence which people repose in the tall man is well merited. Being tall, he is more visible than other men and being more visible, he is much more closely watched. In consequence, his behavior is far better than that of smaller men.

Therefore, it is obvious that we Christians should work hard to preserve the great white race. Not only will we benefit; but by keeping the white race alive we will be able to do more missionary work and be instrumental in saving the individual souls of millions of colored people in spite of their racial weakness and racial inferiority.

She might have received more formal training than he had, might have more breeding and etiquette, but right here, right now, he would have outclassed her. Meilin desperately wished he could be alongside her. It

but we people of fashion know better things. We know self-love and insincerity to be useful and important qualities, the grand cement which binds our intercourse with each other. Born a superior race, we can bid truth and plain honesty depart; and, having dressed falsehood and guile in all the fascination of the senses, can bow down before the idol of our own creation.

When the awful time of reckoning comes, and the Jehovah God appears to demand why his command has been disobeyed, Adam endeavors to shield himself behind the gentle being he has declared to be so dear. 'The woman thou gavest to be with me, she gave me and I did eat,' he whines—trying to shield himself at his wife's expense! Again we are amazed that upon such a story men have built up a theory of their superiority!

Unbelief was easier than belief, much less demanding and subtly flattering because the agnostic felt himself to be intellectually superior to the believer. And then unbelief haunted by faith, as she knew by experience, produced a rather pleasant nostalgia, while belief haunted by doubt involved real suffering.

The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.

I have said before: It interests me how we find ways to feel superior to another person, another group of people. It happens everywhere, and all the time. Whatever we call it, I think it's the lowest part of who we are, this need to find someone else to put down.

it was new, what he saw on the Internet, the cool statements of superiority so deeply believed in, that anyone not white should, as one person had written, "be exterminated as easily as we do rats." Gerry didn't share with his wife the things he read. "Cowards," he did say. "You can be anonymous, that's what's the trouble with the Internet." Each night now Gerry took a sleeping pill.

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

The man who claimed to be better than anyone else had to be ready to prove it, with his words, his actions, or his fists.

Los españoles tuvieron una clara superioridad sobre los demás pueblos: su lengua se hablaba en París, en Viena, en Milán, en Turín; sus modas, sus formas de pensar y de escribir subyugaron a las inteligencias italianas, y desde Carlos V hasta el comienzo del reinado de Felipe III España tuvo una consideración de la que carecían los demás pueblos (VOLTAIRE).

En el fondo —dice—, a una mujer de mundo le gusta saber que hay hombres superiores a otros, más audaces y elegantes, que no defraudarán su vanidad, no se detendrán ante su pretendida virtud, y tomarán la iniciativa usando, incluso, la violencia adecuada que sirva de excusa a la mujer... ¿Me explico?

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

In the valley of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

We cannot be too earnest, too persistent, too determined, about living superior to the herd-instinct.

Another parent's different approach raises the possibility that you've made a mistake with your child. We simply can't tolerate that because we fear that any mistake, no matter how minor, could have devastating consequences. So we proclaim the superiority of our own choices. We've lost sight of the fact that people have preferences.

Mediocrity doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgement and turn it into improvement. Do not look at others' bodies with envy or with superiority. All people are born with different constitutions. Never compare with others. Each one's capacities are a function of his or her internal strength. Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.

There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals, which was wont to be magnified. That that is, is between superior and inferior, whose fortunes may comprehend the one the other.

Rap is very competitive. I just think I'm light years better than anybody.

There's no other rapper that will drop a better album than me. No one.

There aren't really any 'American' grandmasters that are higher rated than me.

Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better.