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Quotes About Superiority

I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
There is nothing noble about being superior to some other men. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
~ Hindustani proverb
Every man in the world is better than someone else, and not as good as someone else.
~ William Saroyan
There was never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle.
~ Bertrand Russell
Mine is better than ours.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Quality, not quantity, is my measure.
~ Douglas Jerrold
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
~ Albert Camus
In taking revenge a man is but equal to his enemy, but in passing it over he is his superior.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior.
~ Aristotle
When one clings to the myth of superiority, one must constantly overlook the virtues and abilities of others.
~ Anne Wilson Schaef
He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
~ Samuel Johnson
Superiority is always detested.
~ Baltasar Gracian
ja?i konja jaše, a slabiji pješke kaska.
~ Ivo Andri?
When someone believes they're smarter, more talented, just plain more right than anyone else, and they harbor this kind of need, they're very, very dangerous.
~ J.D. Robb
think people like her—like Pandora and Young and Redford—are incredibly arrogant. They've got money, looks, a certain amount of power and prestige. It makes them feel above the law.
~ J.D. Robb
Nietzsche was right. I won't take the time to tell you who Nietzsche was, but he was right. The world belongs to the strong - to the strong who are noble as well and who do not wallow in the swine-trough of trade and exchange. The world belongs to the true nobleman, to the great blond beasts, to the noncompromisers, to the 'yes-sayers.
~ Jack London
They, as a class, believed that they alone maintained civilization.
~ Jack London
Wherever there is an ascendant class, a large portion of the morality emanates from its class interests and its class feelings of superiority.
~ Jack London
Hers was that common insularity of mind that makes human creatures believe that their color, creed, and politics are best and right and that other human creatures scattered over the world are less fortunately placed than they.
~ Jack London
There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.
~ John C. Maxwell
So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
~ Samuel Johnson
I'm quite repulsed by the diva type.
~ Siobhan Fahey
It is conceded by all that man is the very highest type of all living creatures on the earth. His intelligence is far superior to that of any other earthly being.
~ Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Self-examination - when the whole world around you is pressuring that and challenging you - is very, very hard. Looking at a whole structure - in my case, let us say of snobbery, basking in certain privileges, marks of what appear to be superiority - that's ugly to look at.
~ Margo Jefferson