Quotes About Superiority

In trust and wisdom you can be as far superior to anyone as you dare make yourself.

In this universe of privately controlled education, each charter school can choose the curricula of its choice: Evolution is just a theory, the Bible is a literal history, dinosaurs and human beings simultaneously inhabited the earth, men are superior to women, white Christians to everyone else, and so on. Private and charter schools are like websites: they can foster any belief, shatter the idea that there is anything called truth

Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be smarter than them.

This statesman was no conqueror, but his superiority consisted in his moral conquest; this President vanquished no foreign people, and his superiority lay in his self-constraint; this excellent judge of human nature cast a spell over nobody, yet is more fascinating than the shining victors of history.

We invest ourselves with an abusive superiority when we tell someone what we think of him and of what he does. Frankness is not compatible with a delicate sentiment, nor even with an ethical exigency.

La sola risposta al nulla sta nell'illusione. E' quasi un fatto biologico. È la nostra sostanza stessa. Non è illusione, è qualcosa di più. Ma ciò vuole anche dire che il pericolo della vita consiste nell'esagerare col rigore, nello spingersi troppo oltre. Questione di temperamento. Un'altra cosa spiacevole nella vita è l'astio. L'astioso è un incattivito che si attribuisce una sorta di superiorità.

I try--without success--to stop finding reasons for vanity in anything. When I happen to manage it nonetheless, I feel that I no longer belong to the mortal gang. I am above everything then, above the gods themselves. Perhaps that is what death is: a sensation of great, of extreme superiority.

Churchill era convinto della diseguaglianza delle razze e della superiorità della razza anglosassone; esaltava la vita militare, il valore etico della guerra e la sua necessità nella lotta per l'esistenza; glorificava l'impero britannico ed era deciso a conservarlo integro con qualsiasi mezzo, contro ogni aspirazione all'indipendenza dei popoli coloniali.

To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.

Let's have no beating about the bush. Not every yahoo in a first-night seat is my peer.

Inanimate objects were often so much nicer than people.

Believing themselves superior in soul, in strength, in energy, industry, and national virtue, Germans felt they deserved the dominion of Europe.

The attitude was a sense of superiority so dense as to be impenetrable. A feeling of this kind leads to ignorance of the world and of others because it suppresses curiosity.

The limitation prompting folly " was an attitude of superiority so dense as to be impenetrable.

Britain had an air of careless supremacy which GALLED her neighbors.

Power is the exercise of superior force against a body that resists. Suppress the idea of resistance, and the idea of power disappears.

Every action makes you a fragmentary existence. I hold on to my nature as an entirety only by refusing to act--or at least by denying the superiority of time, which is reserved for action.

To be recognised as the best in the whole world at something is an achievement.

One thing that humans still do better than computers is recognize images.

We Americans can be haughty. We can be delusional.

The United States came out of the 1990s, if anything, in an even greater position of hegemony and preeminence than it was at the beginning of the 1990s.

I am leaps and bounds better than Henry Cejudo. I greatly believe that. But unfortunately, I didn't get a chance to prove it.

Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.

He must be cut off from the past, just as he must be cut off from foreign countries, because it is necessary for him to believe that he is better off than his ancestors and that the average level of material comfort is constantly rising.