Quotes About Inferiority

Because rich people were excused from the suffering of the world, they had to invent their own more elaborate and personalized forms of suffering and then to inflict baroque versions of that stunted inferiority onto others.

Abnormal professions attract two classes: those who are not good enough for ordinary bourgeois life and those who are too good for it. We are dregs and scum, sir: the dregs very filthy, the scum very superior.

I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.

Unloved is not the right word... but I never felt I made the grade. Mark was a blond, very attractive little boy, and sporty, so Dad was always teaching him to play cricket on the lawn... I always felt I came second out of two.

When people feel threatened by you, they find something that is belittling.

No es que yo sea bueno, es que los demás son tan malos que la comparación se revela imposible.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority, that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

Islam's borders are bloody and so are its innards. The fundamental problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism. It is Islam, a different civilisation whose people are convinced of the superiority of their culture and are obsessed with the inferiority of their power.

The art of war is to gain time when your strength is inferior.

There is another way in which the general opinion, that women are inferior to men, is manifested....I allude to the disproportionate value set on the time and labor of men and women.

The house negroes of the County considered themselves superior to white trash, and their unconcealed scorn stung him, while their more secure position in life stirred his envy. By contrast with his own miserable existence, they were well-fed, well-clothed and looked after in sickness and old age. They were proud of the good names of their owners and, for the most part, proud to belong to people who were quality, while he was despised by all.

Para el escritor latinoamericano, Borges significó la ruptura de un cierto complejo de inferioridad que, de manera inconsciente, por supuesto, lo inhibía de abordar ciertos asuntos y lo encarcelaba dentro de un horizonte provinciano.

A man so far out of his league he suffered from altitude sickness.

We are always ready to look down on people: it is an abiding pleasure, a poultice for our own sore sense of inferiority.

when you seek Significance, you're always comparing yourself with someone else. And there's always someone bigger, taller, stronger, faster, richer, funnier, younger, more handsome, more beautiful, with a bigger yacht, a nicer car, a nicer home.

when it comes to money, delusions that you're better than everybody else can kill you.

Mr. Low, having not unnaturally been jealous that a young whipper-snapper of a pupil

It can be fun to feel exceptional--to be the loophole woman, to have a whole power thing, to be an honorary man. But if you are the exception that proves the rule, and the rule is that women are inferior, you haven't made any progress.

Even a woman may be good, and also a slave; though the woman may be said to be an inferior being, and the slave quite worthless.

The ideal man, takes joy in doing favours for others; but he feels ashamed to have others do favours for him. For it is a mark of superiority to confer a kindness; but it is a mark of inferiority to receive it.

We laugh at inferior or ugly individuals, because we feel a joy at feeling superior to them.

A clean house is a sign of mental inferiority.

Women are judged inferior until we prove ourselves, and men are judged superior until they prove what assholes they are." — Dr. Kat Hunter

Women are judged inferior until we prove ourselves, and men are judged superior until they prove what assholes they are.