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Quotes About Superior

The Superior Man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing.
~ Confucius
Men's indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.
~ Thucydides
Trade is much superior to piracy. You can rob and kill a man but once, but you can cheat him again and again.
~ Louis L'Amour
Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Ripe bananas are the mark of a good produce section. A good produce section is the mark of a superior grocery store. A superior grocery store is the mark of a good man.
~ Stanley Tucci
The superior man is intelligently, not blindly, faithful.
~ Confucius
Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.
~ Beatrice Webb
Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand.
~ Confucius
All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.
~ H. L. Mencken
You should each do your duty; and, if this is not appreciated by your superior, you may be sure that it will be appreciated and rewarded by the Lord.
~ Teresa of Avila
The jargon of authenticity ... is a trademark of societalized chosenness ... sub-language as superior language.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
Objection 3: Further, Gregory says (Moral. ii): "God speaks to the angels by the very fact that He shows to their hearts His hidden and invisible things." But this is to enlighten them. Therefore, whenever God speaks, He enlightens. In the same way every angelic speech is an enlightening. Therefore an inferior angel can in no way speak to a superior angel.
~ Thomas Aquinas
No, I mean extremists. People who choose to belong to some insane, twisted cult because somehow it makes them feel good, feel superior.
~ Nora Roberts
products offering competitively superior shock resistance and mean time between failure (MTBF) were accorded a significant price premium, compared to competitive offerings.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
For here again we come within range of that very interesting and obscure masculine complex which has had so much influence upon the woman's movement; that deep-seated desire, not so much that she shall be inferior as that he shall be superior, which plants him wherever one looks, not only in front of the arts, but barring the way to politics too, even when the risk to himself seems infinitesimal and the suppliant humble and devoted.
~ Virginia Woolf
use of the word high is revealing. In Britain, high treason involved a crime against the Crown—as distinguished from petit treason, the betrayal of a superior by a subordinate. The Framers knew this and deliberately chose to incorporate the word high as a limitation on impeachable offenses.
~ Laurence H. Tribe
La competencia de un empleado no es determinada por los extraños, sino por su superior en la jerarquía.
~ Laurence J. Peter
It is simple truth that the Indian did not, so long as his native philosophy held sway over his mind, either envy or desire to imitate the splendid achievements of the white man. In his own thought he rose superior to them!
~ Charles Alexander Eastman
Why is intuition superior to reason? - Because it does not depend upon experience or memory and frequently brings about the solution to our problems by methods concerning which we are in entire ignorance.
~ Charles F. Haanel
By "good profit," I don't mean high margins or high return on capital, or lots of profit by just any means. What I consider to be good profit comes from Principled Entrepreneurship™—creating superior value for our customers while consuming fewer resources and always acting lawfully and with integrity. Good profit comes from making a contribution in society—not from corporate welfare or other ways of taking advantage of people.
~ Charles G. Koch
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
~ George Santayana
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
~ Gore Vidal
Many young men's more immediate and important problems were abuse from their superior, on top of their material privations. Perhaps nothing more could have been expected of a political system founded on mass murder and preserved with oppression.
~ Gregory Feifer
That's O.K. I trust your superior knowledge of motels.
~ James M. Cain