Quotes About Superiority

Il nous suffit d'être, pour être supérieurs.

A man as talented and handsome as yourself ought not be a servant!" he said in a shocked tone. "He ought to be the ruler of a vast estate! What is beauty for, I should like to know, if not to stand as a visible sign of one's superiority to everyone else? But I see how it is! Your enemies have conspired together to deprive you of all your possessions and to cast you down among the ignorant and lowly!

Tutti erano ammaliati dall'idea del progresso e credevano che qualsiasi cosa nuova dovesse essere superiore a ciò che era vecchio. Come se il merito fosse una funzione della cronologia!

Actually, you know what? You keep thinking I'm God's gift to women, angel. It's better for me if you believe I'm the best you can get.

You keep on thinking I'm God's gift to women, angel. It's better for me if you believe I'm the best you can get.

Their syntax and choice of words affirm their superiority. You cannot live on a high plane and indulge yourself in verbiage.

You come from a race that spends more time murdering your own kind than do all the immortals put together, yet you insist you are better than us.

What then do you think is my advantage over you?

In a male-centered gender hierarchy, where it is assumed that men are better than women and that masculinity is superior to femininity, there is no greater perceived threat than the existence of trans women, who despite being born male and inheriting male privilege 'choose' to be female instead.

The idea of an incarnation of God is absurd: why should the human race think itself so superior to bees, ants, and elephants as to be put in this unique relation to its maker? . . Christians are like a council of frogs in a marsh or a synod of worms on a dung-hill croaking and squeaking "for our sakes was the world created."

Teachers preach the superiority of the intelligence; but they preach it because in their opinion it is the intelligence which shows us the actions required for our interests, i.e. from exactly the same passion for the practical.

Forse la più grande consolazione degli oppressi è quella di sentirsi superiori ai loro tiranni.»

We cannot ask ourselves whether 'woman' is superior or inferior to 'man' any more than we can ask ourselves whether water is superior or inferior to fire. There can be no doubt that a woman who is perfectly woman is superior to a man who is imperfectly man, just as a farmer who is faithful to his land and performs his work perfectly is superior to a king who cannot do his own work.

All too often people forget that spirituality is essentially a way of life and that its measure does not consist of notions, theories, and ideas that have been stored in one's head. Spirituality is actually what has been successfully actualized and translated into a sense of superiority which is experienced inside by the soul, and a noble demeanor, which is expressed in the body.

Según él, las almas ególatras como la de ella son incomprendidas e incluso odiadas por los fundamentalistas de la normalidad, que carecen de la fortaleza espiritual necesaria para poner en práctica el feroz narcisismo que deben poseer los humanos intelectualmente superiores.

The reason cats climb is so that they can look down on almost every other animal — it's also the reason they hate birds.

Edsall insisted, "Tolstoy is the writer I most enjoy." "No, no, Dostoyevsky is superior," Oppenheimer said. "He gets to the soul and torment of man.

Contempt, disdain, scorn: these emotions were stops along a closed loop that originated and terminated in a sense of superiority.

When you're young and arrogant and cocky and feel you're invincible, you say a lot of mean things to a lot of people because you think you're better, you don't need to deal with people.

I am not ashamed to say that our culture is far better than the Islamic culture, which is a culture of barbarism.

You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and maybe it is more powerful than all the Arab countries, or most of them.

The difference between God and Reggie Jackson is that God doesn't think he's Reggie Jackson.

I'm so much better than James Vick.

I get very, very jealous if I see people who are dressed better than me.