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Quotes About Superiority

I see myself as the best fighter in the world and that's because I have to. There can't be any other way. I can't go into a fight with the other names that are around my weight, who want the same as me, and not believe that I'm better than them.
~ Chris Eubank Jr.
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
~ Gore Vidal
If you tell a narcissist that someone is less than them in any way, they feel gratified; they feel very good about that.
~ Indya Moore
You are the leader here. Obviiusly your skills are far superior to mine. I don't think I could fit into your life. I'm a loner, not the first lady.
~ Christine Feehan
Women, real women do not have to prove anything to men. We already know we're the superior gender.
~ Christine Feehan
Only Gregori gave you blood. And I." "If I were you, I would not bring up the fact that you forced me to take that spell-casting healer's blood." She twisted away from him, annoyed all over again. "How could you betray me that way?" With great male superiority he glanced down at her face. "Your health comes before your pride.
~ Christine Feehan
Have to do what? One-upmanship. I kill one, you have to kill two. The big bad hunter flexing his muscles. It's annoying. You are not going to whine simply because I have superior hunting skills, are you? He rubbed her knuckles along his jaw, wanting the contact. Needing to show her what he felt too deeply to say. It did not occur to me you would whine.
~ Christine Feehan
The child is father to the man" is a Romantic riddle that turns worldly hierarchy on its head. It means that the child is in some sense the superior of the man; the child is wiser than the man. Ironically, the eventual broad acceptance of this truth did not so much liberate the Victorian bourgeois as it haunted them and gave them a bad conscience. They sensed that the poets were right.
~ Christopher Hill
If the counsel of the peaceniks had been followed, Kuwait would today be the nineteenth province of Iraq. Bosnia would be a trampled and cleansed province of Greater Serbia, Kosovo would have been emptied of most of its inhabitants, and the Taliban would still be in power in Afghanistan. Yet nothing seems to disturb the contented air of moral superiority of those that intone the peace movement.
~ Christopher Hitchens
There is, and there always has been, an unusually high and consistent correlation between the stupidity of a given person and that person's propensity to be impressed by the measurement of I.Q.
~ Christopher Hitchens
It's the minute fanaticism and superiority of the Almanach that offends: the chilling and narrowing of the kinship tie into something denatured and artificial.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Everyone is happier if they have someone else to look down on, as well as someone to look up to, especially if they resent both.
~ Christopher Moore
Everyone is happier if they have someone to look down on, as well as someone to look up to. Especially if they resent both.
~ Christopher Moore
Però ho capito che per indurre un francese a riconoscere una tara della sua genìa basta parlargli male di un altro popolo, come a dire "noi polacchi abbiamo questo o quest'altro difetto" e, poiché non vogliono essere secondi a nessuno, neppure nel male, subito reagiscono con "oh no, qui in Francia siamo peggio" e via a sparlare dei francesi, sino a che non si rendono conto che li hai presi in trappola.
~ Umberto Eco
You have many advantages over him, but there's one advantage he has over you. He knows a lot more about you than you know about him. Also, he understands your ideas better than you understand his.
~ Upton Sinclair
Savages were meant to be subdued and put to work—what good were they otherwise, to themselves or anybody else? When Il Duce's sons dropped mustard gas from airplanes among barefooted black soldiers and thus put them to rout, they were proving themselves superior beings
~ Upton Sinclair
Der alte Herr had steadily refused to meet Corporal Schicklgruber, because he talked too much, and in the army it was customary for a non-commissioned officer to wait for his superior to speak first.
~ Upton Sinclair
Anand, look at the back of my hands. No hair. The sign of an advanced race, boy. And look at yours. No hair either. But you never know. With some of your mother's bad blood flowing in your veins you could wake up one morning and find yourself hairy like a monkey
~ V. S Naipaul
There's a thing called narcissistic personality disorder. People who have an inflated sense of their own importance, a lack of empathy for others. They're vain, they crave the power over others they think they deserve. They can be arrogant and callous. They think they're better than everybody else and they don't care who they trample on in their desire to get what they want.' 'A bit like Donald Trump, then?
~ Val McDermid
in a group that she was convinced were all better than her
~ Val McDermid
How will you select your trading markets? Being a good trader in a great market is better than being a superb trader in an average market. Thus, what will you do to select your trading markets?
~ Van K. Tharp
When you're in war, you don't have to be perfect to be good, you just have to be 51% better than the enemy if you want a moral edge. We in the West have this Utopian idea that we have to be 99.9% good, and if we're not, then we're no damned good. And the enemy knows that.
~ Victor Davis Hanson
A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.
~ Victor Hugo
He doubted everything with an air of superiority--a great power in the eyes of the weak.
~ Victor Hugo