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Quotes About Inferiority

One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Elles [Rosa Luxembourg, Marie Curie] démontrent avec éclat que ce n'est pas l'infériorité des femmes qui a déterminé leur insignifiance historique: c'est leur insignifiance historique qui les a vouées à l'infériorité.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
She compensated for this sense of inferiority by making fun of everything. I did not notice it then, but she never made fun of my faults, only of my virtues;
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Likewise, the most mediocre of males believes himself a demigod next to women.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
it is not women's inferiority that has determined their historical insignificance: it is their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority
~ Simone de Beauvoir
when an individual or a group of individuals is kept in a situation of inferiority, the 'fact' is that he or they 'are' inferior.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
toda a história das mulheres foi feita pelos homens. (...) As mulheres que realizaram obras comparáveis às dos homens (...) demonstram brilhantemente que não foi a inferioridade feminina que determinou a sua insignificância histórica: foi, antes, a sua insignificância histórica que as votou à inferioridade.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Bien loin qu'elle se voue à l'homme parce qu'elle se sait inférieure à lui, c'est parce qu'elle lui est vouée qu'acceptant l'idée de son inferiorité elle la constitue.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
C'est seulement depuis que les femmes commencent à se sentir chez elles sur cette terre qu'on a vu apparaître une Rosa Luxembourg, une Mme. Curie. Elles démontrent avec éclat que ce n'est pas l'inferiorité des femmes qui a déterminé leur insignifiance historique: c'est leur insignifiance historique qui les à vouées à l'inferiorité.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on. *
~ Sinclair Lewis
They took it, too, like Napoleon's soldiers. And they had the Jews and the Negroes to look down on, more and more. The M.M.'s saw to that. Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on. *
~ Sinclair Lewis
When you read my texts, you saw a curt, miserable git. And you told me so. Maybe you're right. But you know what I saw when I read yours? - Sam No. And I don't want to know. - Poppy I saw a girl who races to help others but doesn't help herself. And right now you need to help yourself. No one should walk up the aisle feeling inferior or in a different league or trying to be something they're not. - Sam
~ Sophie Kinsella
Sam doesn't hesitate for a minute. 'You say, Mr and Mrs Tavish, you're making me feel inferior. Do you really think I'm inferior or is it just in my mind?
~ Sophie Kinsella
One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others.
~ Honore de Balzac
Morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior men.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Even a really superior man almost always begins to deteriorate when he is habitually (as the phrase is) king of his company: and in his most habitual company the husband who has a wife inferior to him is always so.
~ John Stuart Mill
Baloney is just salami with an inferiority complex.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
Mediocrity/inferiority complex is the end result of self-hate i.e. intense dislike/devaluation of oneself/yourself.
~ Emeasoba George
Mediocrity/Inferiority complex is the end result of self-hate i.e. Mediocrity or Inferiority complex is nothing else but intense dislike or devaluation of oneself or your own self. Yes! that is just that. Thus, desist from that. ~Emeasoba George
~ Emeasoba George
No one can/will dare to make you a mediocre/an inferior person, until you personally/first accept mediocrity/inferiority complex as your fate. So, never ever think/feel/accept to be a mediocre/an inferior person.
~ Emeasoba George
Seeing an equal person as an inferior object is an act of violence...It hurts as much as a punch to the face. In fact, in many ways it hurts more. Bruises heal more quickly than emotional scars do.
~ Emery Reves
Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.
~ Emil Cioran
A democracy will never, save after an awful catastrophe, return what has once been conceded to it, for to do so would be to admit an inferiority in itself, of which, except by some almost unbearable misfortune, it could never be convinced.
~ bagehot walter xvii