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Quotes About Inferior

The inferior man lived only in his fantasies, because he lacked willpower and imagination. The superior man made his fantasies a reality. (Martin Darius)
~ Phillip Margolin
Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.
~ Malcolm X
He then defines for them its medial (closer to the midline), lateral (further from the midline), superior and inferior (or cranial and caudal), anterior, and posterior (or ventral and dorsal) aspects. Anything nearer to the center or closer to the point of attachment is "proximal" (so the knee is proximal to the ankle), while things further out are "distal" (the ankle being distal to the knee). They need this basic vocabulary to begin.
~ Abraham Verghese
Earth as a building material began to be considered as inferior, and the product of poverty. It fell out of fashion due to social reorganisation – not because it was less durable than the new modern materials.
~ Adam Weismann
If Nature doesn't wish that weaker individuals should mate with the stronger, even less does she wish that a superior race should mix with an inferior one. In such a case, all her efforts, throughout hundreds of thousands of years, to establish an evolutionary higher type of being, might be rendered futile.
~ Adolf Hitler
George Clooney is exactly what you would expect. He's annoyingly good looking, insanely funny, and super smart. So you just feel really inferior around him all the time. You end up feeling really bad about yourself, but you walk away feeling really great about George Clooney.
~ Rob Huebel
time with scornful disregard, as if it were a rather vulgar convention submitted to by the mass of inferior mankind.
~ Joseph Conrad
The term American, like the term democrat, began as an epithet, the former referring to an inferior, provincial creature, the latter to one who panders to the crude and mindless whims of the masses.
~ Joseph J. Ellis
The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate.
~ WASHINGTON ALLSTON
A great many inferior people, Mr Crawford, have helped you over the years in your well-publicized career of adversity, but you mustn't be surprised if the circle begins to diminish. To go by what happened this evening, the man who has finally emerged from it all isn't worth helping.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Your criminal is someone who wants to be important, but who never will be important, because he'll always be less than a man.
~ Agatha Christie
Prospero, you are the master of illusion. Lying is your trademark. And you have lied so much to me (Lied about the world, lied about me) That you have ended by imposing on me An image of myself. Underdeveloped, you brand me, inferior, That s the way you have forced me to see myself I detest that image! What's more, it's a lie! But now I know you, you old cancer, And I know myself as well.
~ Aimé Césaire
Modernity sees humanity as having ascended from what is inferior to it—life begins in slime and ends in intelligence—whereas traditional cultures see it as descended from its superiors. As the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins puts the matter: "We are the only people who assume that we have ascended from apes. Everybody else takes it for granted that they are descended from gods." —HUSTON SMITH16
~ Ray Kurzweil
I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
~ William Butler Yeats
I think I have a superior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it.
~ Paul Simon
No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error and partiality may be corrected.
~ Benjamin Robbins Curtis
That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.
~ Horace
Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying to them.
~ Samuel Johnson
Men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise.
~ H. G. Wells
The superior man is easy to serve, but difficult to please ... The inferior man is difficult to serve, but easy to please.
~ Confucius
The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man. It is a remoter and inferior incarnation of God, a projection of God in the unconscious.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.
~ Walter Darby Bannard
All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resent domination. If the domination is by an inferior, or by a supposed inferior, the resentment becomes stronger.
~ Isaac Asimov, I, Robot