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Quotes About Superiority

It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.
~ Giambattista Vico
We can do it better, more consistently, and in the end, it will cost us less because the students that we produce will be superior to those without technology experience.
~ Major Owens
I was even superior to the Communists and when they didn't go along with me, I quit them.
~ Elia Kazan
America has this wonderful ability to recover from its own mistakes, which is why it's so hugely superior to China.
~ Roger Scruton
I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.
~ Sun Myung Moon
My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the world.
~ Joseph Mitchell
Yes, the European model remains superior to that of America and Japan.
~ Jacques Delors
This is the deal: we are happy to single out people as superior just as long as they don't accept the description themselves. We want heroes and idols, but we also want egalitarianism, and that requires proclamations of humility from our gods.
~ Julian Baggini
I've been totally replaced by people who are superior. I was doing, like, 15 different things. It's very gratifying to watch your job done better.
~ Jim McKelvey
The fact that the U.S. is superior to all others allows for free commerce to take place.
~ Jeb Bush
In coming closer to nature, man shows himself superior to it. As a mere part of nature, man's existence would be a series of isolated phenomena. All life would proceed from and depend on contact with the outside world.
~ Rudolf Christoph Eucken
I grew up in an all-female family - two sisters and a mostly single mother - and we often bonded, in part, by disparaging men and feeling superior to them.
~ Kate Christensen
I was a houseman, the lowest. I was just above - in the hierarchy of jobs, I was just above the Puerto Rican dishwashers - just above, so I felt superior to them.
~ Frank McCourt
Seeing the rich and famous screw up makes us feel superior, or at least not quite so inferior.
~ Jacob Weisberg
I have never used a fairness cream in my life. I don't think being fair is in any way superior to any other colour. And when I started working, I found that being fair has actually backfired for me. I have lost a few films because I'm too fair.
~ Taapsee Pannu
In the E.U., there are always morally superior people who think they have to educate the others.
~ Sebastian Kurz
Racism is never personal - it's about someone saying the group I am part of is superior to the group you are part of.
~ John Barnes
A lot of racism is paternalism. A lot of people hide their own racism because they treat blacks, minorities and other groups like children because deep down they feel superior and better than these people. And they don't feel like they should just treat a guy like a guy.
~ Jim Norton
I tend to read quite serious things in order to try and appear superior.
~ Ellie Taylor
Communist party leadership in China knows that Canada's political and media elite values feeling superior to the United States more than they value standing on principle on the international stage.
~ Erin O'Toole
When you come to the Bernabeu, you have to be very superior to Madrid in order to win.
~ Jordi Alba
As white people in this society, we are socialized from the time that we're born to see ourselves as superior, to see white people and things associated white people as superior. At the same time, I'm encouraged to never admit to that. I'm taught that racism is very bad and immoral.
~ Robin DiAngelo
As long as I don't look down upon any characters, that's fine. The moment I do that - the moment I think I'm superior or that others are inferior - I'm finished as an artist and as a human being.
~ Urmila Matondkar
I think we suffer from certain alienation. We live on this planet, but we somehow have an idea that we're elevated from it, that we're not nature. We're a creature that manages nature and is superior and does whatever it wants. That creates a separation between humanity and the rest of the planet.
~ Yossi Ghinsberg