Superiority Quotes
The visible imperfections of hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or both.
You don't play a game or color a picture with a child to show your superiority. Rather, you choose to limit yourself so as to facilitate and honor that relationship.
It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.
I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer.
The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.
The Internet lets women use words, which is their natural tool. Little girls speak in more complex, grammatical sentences than little boys do, and women never lose that superiority in verbal ability.
Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.
It must always be borne in mind that the assumption of woman's social superiority lies at the root of these rules of conduct.
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.
The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and the colored man is no longer willing to endure his inferiority.
The worst reason to do magic is the desire to display your superiority to your fellow humans.
Atheism: the religion devoted to the worship of one's own smug sense of superiority.
Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority; perfect equality affords no temptation.
Whether splendidly isolated or dangerously isolated, I will not now debate; but for my part, I think splendidly isolated, because the isolation of England comes from her superiority.
The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.
The only animal capable of giving man a fair fight is man. Actually, among ourselves, we fight unfairest of all, and the more we practice, the nastier we get.
No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.
Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.
The superiority...enjoyed by nations that have...perfected a branch of industry, constitutes a...formidable obstacle.
Whatever the scenario, the dynamism of developing nations, their demographics and competitive power are great sources for superiority.
I did not read from a sense of superiority, or advancement, or even learning. I read because I loved it more than any other activity on earth.
I think I'm a very good driver. Apparently, the cause of road rage - as with most anger - is some kind of superiority complex, which, god knows, cars foster.
There was, I think, never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle.
If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique.
The military superiority of Europe to Asia is not an eternal law of nature, as we are tempted to think, and our superiority in civilization is a mere delusion.
The more wit you have, the more good nature you must show, to induce people to pardon your superiority, for that is no easy matter.
Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America.
I don't wish to treat you like an inferior: that is (correcting himself), I claim only such superiority as must result from twenty years' difference in age and a century's advance in experience.
Because they dream so strongly in themselves, their superiority and women's inferiority, they project an image that a woman finds very, very difficult to fight against.
The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in their psychical - they were more complete human beings.
Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.
I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy superiority).
No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival.
Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.
The need to compile lists is a personality disorder, as is the need to assert the superiority of some things over other things.
It has been petrified into a slavery of thought and sentiment, as intolerant superiority on the part of the few and an intolerable burden on the part of the many.
Strange, that certain superiority the goer-away feels for the stayer-at-home.
And whilst he may not claim superiority by reason of learning, I myself must not withold that meed of homage that learning, wherever it resides, always commands.
The very notion of superiority of one kind over another will have to disappear, although differences among kind will remain.
The New York voice reflects its diversity, its foreignness, and, inevitably, the sense of superiority New Yorkers feel or come to feel. It says, without saying, We Know.