Quotes About Inferiority

Racist assumptions, ethnolinguistic assumptions of inferiority or superiority, are as old as mankind.

The supposed inferiority of a constructed language to a national one on the score of richness of connotation is, of course, no criticism of the idea of a constructed language.

If somebody has too much stress about their appearance, they can overcome their inferiority complex through surgery.

I'm sometimes surprised by myself: no matter how much time has passed, I wasn't able to accept my inferiority complex. But I did.

Ebonics is not a separate language. It is ghetto speech and substandard English. To claim that ebonics is a positive way of communicating for blacks is to condemn blacks to menial jobs and economic inferiority. A person who fails to learn correct language skills is forever handicapped in seeking employment.

We consider the underlying fallacy of the plaintiff's argument to consist in the assumption that the enforced separation of the two races stamps the colored race with a badge of inferiority. If this be so, it is not by reason of anything found in the act, but solely because the colored race chooses to put that construction upon it.

The essence of this detrimental effect is a confusion in the child's concept of his own self-esteem—basic feelings of inferiority, conflict, confusion in his self-image, resentment, hostility towards himself, hostility towards whites, intensification of Ã¢â'¬Â¦ a desire to resolve his basic conflict by sometimes escaping or withdrawing.

I am a worm in comparison with His Excellency. I am a worm.' 'Yes, that's just it, you are a worm indeed.

The servants really were worse than the rats

Every form of causeless self-doubt, every feeling of inferiority and secret unworthiness is, in fact, man's hidden dread of his inability to deal with existence.

Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren.

Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves, And therefore are they very dangerous.

I believe that Man is not the most perfect Being but One, rather that as there are many Degrees of Beings his Inferiors, so there are many Degrees of Beings superior to him.

She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.

The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and the colored man is no longer willing to endure his inferiority.

I heard the other day of a man who paid a psychologist $50 to cure him of an inferiority complex - and later was fined $25 and costs for talking back to a traffic cop.

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.

There are few surer ways to become disliked by men than to perform well where they have performed poorly.

No man who says, 'I'm as good as you,' believes it. He would not say it if he did.

Why'd you have to say that there's always someone who can do it better than I can And don't you think that I know that walkin' on water won't make me a miracle man

Some men's ugliness is hard to beat.

Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.

While so much is said of the inferior intellect of woman, it is by a strange absurdity conceded that very many eminent men owe their station in life to their mothers.