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Quotes About Superiority

The only time anyone's admitted they were a Christian before was when they were busy telling me why they're better than me.
~ R. K. Milholland
There will never be a time when the old horse is not superior to any auto ever made.
~ Will Rogers
The house negroes of the County considered themselves superior to white trash, and their unconcealed scorn stung him, while their more secure position in life stirred his envy. By contrast with his own miserable existence, they were well-fed, well-clothed and looked after in sickness and old age. They were proud of the good names of their owners and, for the most part, proud to belong to people who were quality, while he was despised by all.
~ Margaret Mitchell
Yes, I am smarter than you—all of you. And someday I will prove it! Someday you—with all your strength and charm and good looks—you, all of you, will call me master!
~ Margaret Weis
Even if I am twisted and warped." Raistlin's voice rose with harsh arrogance. "Yes, I am smarter than you—all of you. And someday I will prove it! Someday you—with all your strength and charm and good looks—you, all of you, will call me master!
~ Margaret Weis
Es difícil no creerse superior cuando uno sufre, y el ver gente feliz nos da náuseas.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Il n'y qu'un seul point sur lequel je me sens supérieur au commun des hommes : je suis tout ensemble plus libre et plus soumis qu'ils n'osent l'être.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Los pedantes se irritan siempre de que conozcamos tan bien como ellos su mezquino oficio.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Laws institutionalized men's unfounded superiority over women by defining marriage as ownership
~ Marilyn French
When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Perhaps, pious as they were, these ladies did not wish to see me pass into that sad and outcast state of revelation where one begins to feel superior to one's neighbors.
~ Marilynne Robinson
There were, in fact, several churches whose visions of sin and salvation were so ecstatic, and so nearly identical, that the superiority of one church over another could be argued only in terms of good works. And the obligation to perform these works rested squarely with the women, since salvation was universally considered to be much more becoming in women than in men.
~ Marilynne Robinson
He felt that flush of antagonism a poor man feels for a rich woman who is in some way asserting her superiority to him because of a wealth and social position.
~ Mario Puzo
You think you know everything. But you don't. Life and people are right in front of you and you act superior and make jokes but it's just a cover for the fact that you're scared.
~ Marisha Pessl
And people who believe in God think God has put human beings on the earth because they think human beings are the best animal, but human beings are just an animal and they will evolve into another animal, and that animal will be cleverer and it will put human beings into a zoo, like we put chimpanzees and gorillas into a zoo.
~ Mark Haddon
He had always thought of solitary diners as sad. But now that he was the solitary diner, he felt rather superior. On account of the book, mostly. Learning something while everyone else was wasting time. Like working at night.
~ Mark Haddon
It would be folly to assume that an Indian Rockefeller would be better than an American Rockefeller.
~ Mark Kurlansky
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.
~ Mark Twain
Iyi bir insan olmak çok da hoÅŸ olmayabilir. Iyi bir insan olmak korkunç olabilir. Bunu sana söylerken, kulaÄŸa ne kadar çeliÅŸkili geldiÄŸini biliyorum...Tanr? ne ister? Tanr? iyilik mi ister yoksa iyi olma seçeneÄŸini mi? KötülüÄŸü seçen bir insan, kendisine iyilik dayat?lm?? bir insandan baz? aç?lardan daha üstün olabilir mi?
~ Anthony Burgess
We are always ready to look down on people: it is an abiding pleasure, a poultice for our own sore sense of inferiority.
~ Anthony Burgess
Tanr? ne ister? Tanr? iyilik mi ister yoksa iyi olma seçeneÄŸini mi? KötülüÄŸü seçen bir insan, kendisine iyilik dayat?lm?? bir insandan baz? aç?lardan daha üstün olabilir mi? (syf. 84)
~ Anthony Burgess
However, obeying that law that requires most people to minimise to a superior a misfortune which, to an inferior, they would magnify, Widmerpool thrust his head through the open window of the car, and, smiling reverentially, gave an assurance that all was well.
~ Anthony Powell
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance." —BRUCE BARTON
~ Anthony Robbins
when it comes to money, delusions that you're better than everybody else can kill you.
~ Anthony Robbins