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Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.
— Horace Mann
It is not aloofness, superiority. It's a protection. Who in this ravaged battlefield doesn't want to gather close her comrades?
— Megan Abbott
Assumption of superiority by any person over any other is a sin against God and man.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The need to compile lists is a personality disorder, as is the need to assert the superiority of some things over other things.
— Jeremy Hardy
What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.
— Marie Corelli
But the superiority of the British is that it is a matter of complete indifference to them if they appear to be stupid.
— Margaret MacMillan
Do not think you are important but unique.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.
— Paul Harris
The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.
— Walter Lippmann
The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.
— James A. Baldwin
I believed, in the way of adolescents, in the absolute correctness and superiority of my love.
— Emma Cline
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.
— Aleksandar Hemon
To confer a kindness is a mark of superiority; to receive one is a mark of subordination . . .
— Will Durant
Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen.
— Vladimir Putin
Just as it was pointless to argue whether birds or fish were superior, debating the superiority of man or machine was also meaningless.
— Hiroshi Yamamoto
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
(I've had a hard time conveying to intellectuals the intellectual superiority of practice.)
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Satire may be mad and anarchic, but it presupposes an admitted superiority in certain things over others; it presupposes a standard.
— G.K. Chesterton
Everybody loves to find fault, it gives a feeling of superiority.
— William Feather
He doubted everything with an air of superiority--a great power in the eyes of the weak.
— Victor Hugo
Where absolute superiority is not attainable, you must produce a relative one at the decisive point by making skillful use ofwhat you have.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
— Sophie Swetchine
No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.
— Wilkie Collins
Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.
— Walter Lang
Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.
— George Eliot
the mind that has convinced itself of its own superiority is incapable of humility, and in the absence of humility, it is incapable of growth.
— Steven Erikson
Strange, that certain superiority the goer-away feels for the stayer-at-home.
— Lenora Mattingly Weber
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
— William Shenstone
You who are non-believers rely upon us, to confirm your sense of superiority. You need to imagine us as unchanged, unchangeable.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Bernard gave his orders in the sharp, rather arrogant and even offensive tone of one who does not feel himself too secure in his superiority.
— Aldous Huxley
You do not own me. I do not own you.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Be kind; you're only here for a while. No sense of superiority, just do things for others. It's really fun.
— Frederick Lenz
Her father, cheering her, showed a compassionate superiority to this woman's weakness, which was wonderful to see.
— Charles Dickens
What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.
— Alice James
There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.
— Orison Swett Marden
Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America.
— Camille Paglia
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
— Sydney J. Harris
Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
There was, I think, never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle.
— Bertrand Russell
People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
— Van Wyck Brooks
The superiority of the American system is eloquently proved by the pressure of people who want to crash our borders.
— William Feather
Maybe to feel superior in struggle was sensed, When people were aware to fight for identity. — Marieta Maglas
Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant.
— John Donne
You think you're superior to the others, don't you? We'll you're not. In fact you're worse for mistaking basic human decency for moral superiority.
— Nenia Campbell
Stars shine even for those who refuse to look up.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
It must always be borne in mind that the assumption of woman's social superiority lies at the root of these rules of conduct.
— Humphry Davy
The superiority ... enjoyed by nations that have ... perfected a branch of industry, constitutes a ... formidable obstacle.
— Alexander Hamilton
The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
— Henry James
I do not care a fig for any woman that knows even what an author means.
— William Hazlitt
If we are to understand anything of the human mind we must approach the people of the past with humility rather than an overconfident superiority.
— Anthony Terence Quincey Stewart
All the distinctive features and superiority of our republican institutions are derived from the teachings of Scripture.
— Edward Everett
But they are commonly more distinguished by their superiority in the latter than in the former. Their
— Adam Smith
Racial superiority isn't real. It is delusional fiction created by ignorant people.
— Jonathan Heatt
Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.
— Henry David Thoreau
Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
That was the thing about cats; even the scruffiest one was convinced of its innate superiority.
— Linda Howard
Atheism, a religion dedicated to its own sense of smug superiority.
— Stephen Colbert
I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.
— Peter Matthiessen
What can defeat greed, technological superiority, and legal lawlessness ... is discipline, consciousness, and unity.
— Toni Cade Bambara
The hardest thing to attain ... is the appreciation of difference without insisting on superiority.
— George Saintsbury
A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.
— Lawrence G. Lovasik
Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it.
— Baltasar Gracian
To be mediocre, when only application and diligence would have netted superiority, is an error akin to sin.
— Spencer W. Kimball
Besides, we feel always a sort of mental superiority over those whose lives we know better than they suppose.
— Alexandre Dumas
Past has a very great superiority over the future: The future may not exist; but the past existed!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised.
— George Henry Lewes
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
There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.
— Henry Taylor
If it were ever allowable to forget what is due to superiority of rank, it would be when the privileged themselves remember it.
— Sophie Swetchine
Miss Bulstrode had another faculty which demonstrated her superiority over most other women. She could listen.
— Agatha Christie
There is no remedy but love for the great superiority of others
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.
— Henry Rollins
The danger in reviewing and teaching literature for a living (is) you can develop a kind of knee-jerk superiority to the material you're decoding
— Maureen Corrigan
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Spiritual superiority [consists in] deep dedication ... in the form of the most rigorous training, as commitment, resistance, solitude, and love.
— Martin Heidegger
Feelings of superiority always stem from an illusion.
— Marty Rubin
Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.
— Jeanette Winterson
One needs either equality or political and economic superiority.
— Andrea Dworkin
