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Racism is the dogma that one ethnic group is condemned by nature to congenital inferiority and another group is destined to congenital superiority. — Ruth Benedict

My misgivings arise from the fact that I search within to find how He will do what He says. My doubts spring from the depths of my own inferiority. — Oswald Chambers

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance. — Sun Tzu

My favorite strategy is to feign inferiority and encourage my enemy's arrogance. — Jessica Knoll

Conceit is an outward manifestation of inferiority. — Noel Coward

Performance for another in no way signals the inferiority of the performer to the one for whom the performance is intended. — Sandra Bartky

The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate. — Eric Hoffer

[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband. — Wallace Stegner

We are always immeasurably bigger than the little person we've too often doomed ourselves to be. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

One who has an inferiority complex can never be really humble, but can only have false modesty or false humility. — Sri Chinmoy

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The cheers of the multitude frequently act like a powerful drug upon young gentlemen with inferiority complexes. — P.G. Wodehouse

Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one's own inferiority. It is a mental cancer. — B.C. Forbes

For cultural invasion to succeed, it is essential that those invaded become convinced of their intrinsic inferiority. — Paulo Freire

Should I rejoice in the inferiority of my fate?" - John Lockwood — Noorilhuda

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. — Honore De Balzac

Peace is a place of unhindered enjoyment of friendship beyond guilt, suspicion, blame of inferiority — Francois Du Toit

A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else. — John B. Keane

Arrogance created to project a self-image of superiority is the very trait that demonstrates to others deeply hidden inferiority. — Sam Owen

Courage is an imaginary construct that people have made to hide their inferiority. — Rakesh Satyal

Simply minding one's own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than. — Criss Jami

The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us. — Sophie Swetchine

One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody. — Alvin Ailey

We all have a lifelong habit of inferiority to our full self ... " — William James

Don't plead with anyone if you were not at fault, you'll only look inferior, stupid and funny, bolster your ego by doing the undoing. — Michael Bassey Johnson

You can't have an inferiority complex and a superiority complex. Just pick one. — Anna Breslaw

I should think more crimes have probably been committed by chaps with inferiority complexes trying to demonstrate their virility, than even for money. — Mary Renault

The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority. — Honore De Balzac

When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior. — Simone De Beauvoir

The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation. — Frantz Fanon

Men conscious of inferiority are always trying to impose themselves on others, because they know that underneath they are cowards or cretins. — Helen Simpson

I would rather have an inferiority complex and be pleasantly surprised, than have a superiority complex and be rudely awakened. — Vanna Bonta

Successful self-actualization can prevent inferiority complexes — Sunday Adelaja

The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public. — Ezra Pound

Quotation confesses inferiority. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Comparing how you feel on the inside (bad) to the way someone else looks on the outside (great) is a losing proposition. It's an impossible standard. — Maria Shriver

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The thing you let Die within when you are Alive, will be carried with your Soul after Death. — Usha Cosmico

I have an inferiority complex, but it's not a very good one. — Steven Wright

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority. — Simone De Beauvoir

Superiority? Inferiority?
Why not simply try to touch the other, feel the other, discover each other? — Frantz Fanon

Definition of an alcoholic is an egomaniac with an inferiority complex — Alcoholics Anonymous

Whose inferiority proclaimed her own supremacy so loud ... — Marcel Proust

And see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky ... — Martin Luther King Jr.

The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority — Yukio Mishima

We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides. — Pliny The Elder

An inferiority complex distorts reality — Sunday Adelaja

We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority. — James Hillman

It is only the people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. — T.H. White

What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around. — Criss Jami

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see. — Samuel Johnson

I Don't Suffer From A Complex But The Complex Suffers From Me. — Amit Abraham

Wherever an inferiority complex exists, there is a good reason for it. — Carl Jung

Inferiority complex begins when you agree that you are nothing. No one is responsible or author of it except yourself. — Paul Gitwaza

Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps — Karl Marx

Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides. — Pliny The Elder

My paycheck is so small it has an inferiority complex. — Mallory Kane

We like to know the weakness of eminent persons; it consoles us for our inferiority. — Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles

Hatred is public demonstration of inferiority complex. — Paulo Coelho

Overconfidence blurs out the risk. Inferiority magnifies it. — Toba Beta

The inferiority of women is man-made. — Helen Keller

I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority. — Peter Matthiessen

An inferiority complex is acquired in childhood — Sunday Adelaja

The sun never has an inferiority complex. It shines the same whether above or below. — Curtis Tyrone Jones

I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time. — Barry Gibb

Fortunately, any kind of setback has represented a challenge to do better, rather than an acceptance of inferiority on my part. — Frances Parkinson Keyes

Give me something about bacteria. Give me something that won't make me feel so inferior — William, Saroyan

Intelligence arouses fear and respect, the lack of it keeps one on the narrow minded road of disrespect, stupidity and inferiority complex. — Michael Bassey Johnson

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority. — Alfred Adler

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends. — Lord Chesterfield

Female inferiority is internalised by us. Women need a lot more confidence. — Gloria Steinem

Remember, 20 percent of women have inferiority complexes, 70 percent have illusions. — Elsa Schiaparelli

People hate who makes you feel one's inferiority. — Lord Chesterfield

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority. — Elbert Hubbard

...dominant groups tend to entrench their hegemony by inculcating an image of inferiority in the subjugated. — Charles Taylor

In man or fish, wriggling is a sign of inferiority. — Herman Melville

Remember you don't own people, let them decide, choose and live. There is no inferiority and superiority; it is just your crazy imagination. — M.F. Moonzajer

All that day she felt as if she were acting in a theatre with better actors than herself, and that her bad performance was spoiling the whole affair. — Leo Tolstoy

Your inferiority was right there on display for the world to see. — Liane Moriarty

People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority. — Lord Chesterfield

Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. — Jane Austen

Does a little fish, swimming though the net's eye, suffer from inferiority complex? — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

God will cease to be God, if he brought into being a single person with the hall-mark of inferiority. — Mahatma Gandhi

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority. — John C. Calhoun

The Wall was the actual symbol of a defeat, of inferiority. — Stefan Heym

Weak men like humble women, especially great women who make them feel as inferior. — Brent Weeks

The eye fixed on Christ sees clearly, succumbing to neither pride nor inferiority, because it is not concerned with the self at all. — Andree Seu World Magazine

If Korea were a person, it would be diagnosed as a neurotic, with both an inferiority and a superiority complex. — Euny Hong

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself. — Plato

Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority. — Carter G. Woodson

Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends. — Lord Chesterfield

Baloney is just salami with an inferiority complex. — Ellen DeGeneres

Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority. — Emily Post

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority. — Alfred Adler

My waking life probably gave my subconscious an inferiority complex. — Jordan Castillo Price

Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death. — Alexander Crummell

In existence there is no inferiority complex anywhere, and as a corollary there is no superiority complex either. — Osho

Envy suggests inferiority. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

A person who is alcoholic usually has the feeling of inferiority that results in a person feeling extremely depressed. — Paul Silway