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Quotes About Inferiors

Feeling they were being treated as inferiors by the West, and suffering from American and European racism, the Japanese concluded that they had to make their own place in the world, using force to pursue the manifest destiny of the `imperial way'.
~ Jonathan Fenby
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
~ Aristotle
The same amount of pride which makes a man treat haughtily his inferiors, makes him cringe servilely; to those above him.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
It already appears, that there must be in every society of men superiors and inferiors, because God has laid in the constitution and course of nature the foundations of the distinction.
~ John Adams
I tried to look like someone who was busy expanding her horizons and building her character through intentional fraternization with her social inferiors. A difficult look to master in a single facial expression, but I did my best.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
The privileged Victorians who did most to improve the lives of the poor were not ashamed of their pious intent: they were superiors seeking to help inferiors.
~ Michel Faber
It was the year of the Joker in Gotham and beyond. The Caped Crusader was nowhere to be seen – it was not an age of heroes – but his arch-rival in the purple frock coat and striped pantaloons was ubiquitous, clearly delighted to have the stage to himself and hogging the limelight with evident delight. He had seen off the Suicide Squad, his feeble competition, but he permitted a few of his inferiors to think of themselves as future members of a Joker administration.
~ Salman Rushdie
The First Amendment, he explained, exposed tolerance as a sham, because tolerance implies one superior group of people deigning to put up with their inferiors.
~ Sarah Vowell
Otto's racial theories. These boiled down to the unquestionable fact that the German race had produced the greatest geniuses in art, music, and literature. As a member of that race, Otto found it insufferable that he was now forced to deal with, as he saw it, his inferiors, a bunch of illiterate, lecherous Jews who cared only about money.
~ Edward Sorel
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
~ Aristotle
Una sociedad civilizada no puede admitirlos porque se oponen abiertamente a las leyes de la selección y de la lucha por la existencia, que se cumplen en el organismo social como en los inferiores.
~ Armando Palacio Valdés
One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Segregation is that which is forced upon inferiors by superiors. But separation is that which is done voluntarily, by two equals- for the good of both.
~ Malcolm X
It is a common law of nature, which no time will ever change, that superiors shall rule their inferiors.
~ Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.
~ Albert Einstein
the ruling classes, as the phrase Protestant Ascendancy indicates, tended one way, while their social inferiors, whether servants, farmers or soldiers, were almost universally Catholic.
~ Antonia Fraser
Like most people, I feel ambiguous guilt for my inferiors, ambiguous envy for my superiors, and mandatory low-spirits about the system itself.
~ Martin Amis
The man who attempts to purchase the brains of his superiors to serve him, with his money replacing his judgment, ends up by becoming the victim of his inferiors. The men of intelligence desert him, but the cheats and the frauds come flocking to him, drawn by a law which he has not discovered: that no man may be smaller than his money. Is this the reason why you call it evil?
~ Ayn Rand
He became a justification for every mediocrity who, unable to make his own living, had demanded the power to dispose of the property of his betters, by proclaiming his willingness to devote his life to his inferiors at the price of robbing his superiors. It is this foulest of creatures—the double-parasite
~ Ayn Rand
When superiors are fond of showing their humanity, inferiors try to outstrip one another in their practice of it.
~ Confucius
It is certainly for the interest of the service that a cordial interchange of civilities should subsist between superior and inferior officers, and therefore, it is bad policy in superiors to behave towards their inferiors indiscriminately, as though they were of a lower species.
~ John Paul Jones
Ad hominem and brutality are the voice and expression of logic and reasoning of impotents and inferiors.
~ Brian Deschanel
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior.
~ Aristotle