Superiority Quotes
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.
Clothes therefore, must be the insignia of the superiority of man over all other animals, for surely there could be no other reason for wearing the hideous things
Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.
To keep hope alive one must, in spite of all mistakes, horrors, and crimes, recognize the obvious superiority of the socialist camp.
There is always the fear of self-righteousness possessing us, the fear of arrogating to ourselves a superiority that we do not possess.
When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.
The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.
Where absolute superiority is not attainable, you must produce a relative one at the decisive point by making skillful use ofwhat you have.
Air control can be established by superiority in numbers, by better employment, by better equipment, or by a combination of these factors.
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
The economic disasters of socialism and communism come from assuming a blanket superiority of those who want to run a whole economy.
The women are very important too, we can't have a revolution that doesn't involve and liberate women. It's so subtle the way you're taught male superiority.
The harmony of natural law reveals an Intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.
The real objection to the great majority of cats is their insufferable air of superiority.
Smiley Bone: You can't feel safe unless there's something to be safe against! Phoney Bone: Exactly! People like to be victims! There's a certain unassailable moral superiority about it.
Air superiority is a condition for all operations, at sea, in land, and in the air.
The greatest threat to compassion is the temptation to succumb to fantasies of moral superiority.
The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
I look back on my liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe.
What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.
It is in the world of ideas and in the relation of his brain to the universe itself that the superiority of Man lies. The rise of Man may justly be described as an adventure in ideas.
Though I would have liked my chances in a rematch in 1998 if I were better prepared, it was clear then that computer superiority over humans in chess had always been just a matter of time.
I reject the idea that humans are superior to other life forms. . . Man is just an ape with an overly developed sense of superiority.
To use a fighter as a fighter-bomber when the strength of the fighter arm is inadequate to achieve air superiority is putting the cart before the horse.
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: this triptych succinctly defines the attractiveness and superiority of Western civilization.
Let no man, in whatever rank or superiority, control your mind and tell you what to do
Be kind; you're only here for a while. No sense of superiority, just do things for others. It's really fun.
The superiority of the gold standard consists in the fact that the value of gold develops independent of political actions.
In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.
Superiority and success doesn't favor good effort or self-esteem... The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches.
The hardest thing to attain... is the appreciation of difference without insisting on superiority.
It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
The superiority of the Greeks seems not so much the result of climate and society, as of the simplicity of their end and the uniformity of their means.
Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.
Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming one's superiority in the face of one's diminished influence.
To be loved, we should merit but little esteem; all superiority attracts awe and aversion.
The Germans are indeed the economically and politically strongest power in Europe. But their superiority does not equal the past and present superiority of the Americans.
I can't tell them what to do!" "Why not?" the other girl demanded. "Honestly, Clary, if you don't start utilizing a bit of your natural feminine superiority, I just don't know what I'll do with you.
The critics can say stupid things and we can enjoy them, if we have the legitimate feeling of superiority - the satisfaction of a duty accomplished.
The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.
If I were asked ... to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of Americans ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.
