Quotes About Superiority

There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was more important than quantity.

A wolf can only curse a lion when surrounded by its peers.

One bright star is better than a thousand dull moons.

A strong ant is better than a weak lion.

We humans are the gods of this planet. And we also have created Superior Gods than us, to have a sense of security.

What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers.

Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.

Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.

In this thing one man is superior to another, that he is better able to bear adversity and prosperity.

It is in the world of ideas and in the relation of his brain to the universe itself that the superiority of Man lies. The rise of Man may justly be described as an adventure in ideas.

Men despise one another and flatter one another; and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another.

The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.

It is because of his brain that he [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above.

To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate.

We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.

The mass of men lead lives of shallow happiness; the superior man exults in his gloom.

The uncouth hordes of common men are not fit to recognize duly the merits of those who eclipse their own wretchedness.

I reject the idea that humans are superior to other life forms. . . Man is just an ape with an overly developed sense of superiority.

There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears.

Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.

The masses do not like those who surpass them in any regard. The average man envies and hates those who are different.

The worst man is the one who sees himself as the best.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart-the best brain.

To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.