Quotes About Inferiority

Comparisons are made to make the other person fall short.

comparison are designed to make someone fall short

People really need somebody they feel superior to. So stay downtrodden.

People really need somebody they feel superior to.

The majority of prisoners suffered from a kind of inferiority complex. We all had once been or had fancied ourselves to be 'somebody.' Now we were treated like complete nonentities (The consciousness of one's inner value is anchored in higher, more spiritual things, and cannot be shaken by camp life. But how many free men, let alone prisoners, possess it?)

It's been my experience that people who treat others as inferiors are really only covering up their own lack of class.

All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority, belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are 'sides,' and it is necessary for one side to beat another side, and of the utmost importance to walk up to a platform and receive from the hands of the Headmaster himself a highly ornamental pot.

Possibly when the professor insisted a little too emphatically upon the inferiority of women, he was concerned not with their inferiority, but with his own superiority. That was what he was protecting rather hot-headedly and with too much emphasis, because it was a jewel to him of the rarest price.

That is why Napoleon and Mussolini both insist so emphatically upon the inferiority of women, for if they were not inferior, they would cease to enlarge. That serves to explain in part the necessity that women so often are to men.

One does not like to be told that one is naturally the inferior of a little man

Possibly when the professor insisted a little too emphatically upon the inferiority of women, he was concerned not with their inferiority, but with his own superiority.

That is why Napoleon and Mussolini both insist so emphatically upon the inferiority of women, for if they were not inferior, they would cease to enlarge.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure or man at twice it's natural size. ... That is why Napoleon and Mussolini both insist so empathetically upon the inferiority of women, for if they were not inferior, they would cease to enlarge.

Posiblemente, cuando el profesor insistía con demasiado énfasis sobre la inferioridad de las mujeres, no era la inferioridad de éstas lo que le preocupaba, sino su propia superioridad. Era esto lo que protegía un tanto acaloradamente y con demasiada insistencia, porque para él era una joya del precio más incalculable.

se dirigió al extremo opuesto del salón, haica un rincón en penumbra donde colgaba un espejo, y se miró. ¡No! No iba bien. Y de inmediato la congoja que siempre intentaba ocultar, la profunda insatisfacción - la sensación que tenía, desde que era niña, de ser inferior a los demás -, se apoderó de ella, implacable, despiadada, con tal intensidad que no podía rechazarla

All this pitting of sex against sex . . . all this claiming of superiority and imparting of inferiority, belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are 'sides,' and it is . . . of the utmost importance to walk up to a platform and receive from the hands of the Headmaster himself a highly ornamental pot.

The one who kills is always his victim's inferior.

Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others And shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status.

Most people were raised to believe they are just as good as the next person. I was always told I was better.

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority, otherwise called ambition.

All psychologists who have studied the intelligence of women, as well as poets and novelists, recognize today that they represent the most inferior forms of human evolution and that they are closer to children and savages than to an adult, civilized man. They excel in fickleness, inconstancy, absence of thought and logic, and incapacity to reason.

La admiración es una forma noble de la envidia.

El nacionalismo mide el mundo en superioridad o inferioridad, en triunfo o derrota, en nos hicieron y les hicimos.

La envidia es el homenaje que la mediocridad le rinde al talento.