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Quotes About Inferiority

how small he was and how wormy in manner
~ James A. Michener
Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure, does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity and fear.
~ James Baldwin
The details and symbols of your life have been deliberately constructed to make you believe what white people say about you. Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure, does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity and fear.
~ James Baldwin
Bloodlust is the only real tribute the mediocre are capable of bringing to the extraordinary
~ James Baldwin
Take no one's word for anything, including mine—but trust your experience. Know whence you came. If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go. The details and symbols of your life have been deliberately constructed to make you believe what white people say about you. Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure, does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity and fear.
~ James Baldwin
There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomfortable in the presence of someone who is distinctly superior in whatever way.
~ Carlisle Floyd
White supremacy is the conscious or unconscious belief or the investment in the inherent superiority of some, while others are believed to be innately inferior. And it doesn't demand the individual participation of the singular bigot. It is a machine operating in perpetuity, because it doesn't demand that somebody be in place driving.
~ Michael Eric Dyson
The word "Wisdom" was for the people who have high level of inferiority complex and who are battling with some hard times.
~ Bikash Bhandari
The moon cannot outshine the sun.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Intelligence arouses fear and respect, the lack of it keeps one on the narrow minded road of disrespect, stupidity and inferiority complex.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
Remember, 20 percent of women have inferiority complexes, 70 percent have illusions.
~ Elsa Schiaparelli
We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.
~ Elizabeth Janeway
Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.
~ William Saroyan
Stripped of all their masquerades, the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness, rejection, inferiority, unmanageable anger, illness and death.
~ Joshua L. Liebman
Men despise one another and flatter one another; and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.
~ Ayn Rand
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
~ Baron de Montesquieu
The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
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.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Ordinary men commonly condemn what is beyond them.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote.
~ Louise Slaughter
Negative feedback can make people feel inferior.
~ Adam Grant
These valuable thing produced in us a feeling of intimidation. We knew that no matter how far we got in life, we would never really be meant for such fineness, that the few expensive antiques we did have had fallen to us from a higher life and now condescended to live among us.
~ Nicole Krauss