Quotes About Inferiority

O]ur 'inferiors,' who love us...take pleasure in wounding us in our self-esteem.

We soon got the idea that 'Italian' meant something inferior, and a barrier was erected between children of Italian origin and their parents. This was the accepted process of Americanization," Covello reflected in his memoir The Heart Is the Teacher. "We were becoming Americans by learning how to be ashamed of our parents.

Comparschläger: noun; a self-inflicted poison. Activates when you compare yourself to others and end up feeling worthless. Analogous to Goldschläger, the disgusting cinnamon-flavored schnapps with gold flakes that, when ingested in large quantities, makes you puke.

The weak ones are there to justify the strong.

Envy, is Pride's greatest Fear.

It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence of superiority and inferiority.

Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the most destructive way of being different.

Jealousy means that you have low self-esteem, and therefore, consider yourself inferior to others

Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

Cuando un pueblo empieza a creer que el color de su piel o la forma de la nariz garantizan su futura preeminencia, están generalmente contribuyendo a cavar su propia tumba.

What Ireland shares with many societies around the world is a dangerous reality: once a group of people is isolated as being in some way inferior, the general population becomes less concerned with how they are treated, even in the face of evidence of cruelty and abuse. In Ireland's case, the thousands of victims of industrial schools bear witness to a society unwilling to question its own comfortable certainties out of a fear that those beliefs might turn out to have been built on sand.

All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier.

I should think more crimes have probably been committed by chaps with inferiority complexes trying to demonstrate their virility, than even for money.

Quiero decir que la legitimidad de una cosa no viene determinada por la cantidad de valor que exige. Debió de requerir mucho valor asesinar a Abraham Lincoln, por ejemplo. ?Muy cierto. Yo diría que probablemente han sido más los individuos con complejos de inferioridad que han cometido delitos para demostrar su virilidad que incluso los que lo han hecho por dinero.

when you feel less superior it seems you feel more lonely.

In nature's cyclical rhythms, there are no ground for the discriminatory view that underlies Darwin's view of superiority and inferiority that deems some organisms as lower, and others as higher. It would be more appropriate to say we are all one continuous life-form.

A candle cannot boast standing next to the sun.

Las revistas son muy populares, aunque ningún humano se siente mejor después de leerlas; es más, su principal objetivo parece ser generar una sensación de inferioridad en el lector que, a su vez, le crea la necesidad de adquirir algo, cosa que hacen, para, sin falta, sentirse peor y tener que comprar otra revista para ver lo siguiente que pueden comprar. Es un círculo vicioso eterno e ingrato que recibe el nombre de capitalismo y que goza de gran popularidad.

Don't worry, I don't even have a piece of shit. I have to envy yours.

Selon une opinion qui a longtemps prévalu parmi les psychologues, les gens qui ont une mauvaise opinion d'eux-mêmes seraient enclins à recourir à la violence pour compenser leur sentiment d'infériorité et montrer aux autres ce dont ils sont capables.

We must recognize a sort of sedimentation of our life: when an attitude toward the world has been confirmed often enough, it becomes privileged for us...After having built my life upon an inferiority complex, continuously reinforced for twenty years, it is not likely that I would change.