Top 589 Superiority Quotes & Sayings

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.

Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

Savagery was a word that Westerners used to, again, to consciously differentiate them from non-Westerners, to assert that superiority, that cultural superiority. It goes back to the British Empire, and again, you know, what was the purpose of the British Empire? To bring civilization to the savage no matter where they were, whether it was India or Asia or Australia or whatever. It's that civilizing mission that characterizes so much of the history of Western colonialism.

Greater powers and resources do not guarantee tactical superiority.

Man has been condemning women. Perhaps there is a reason; perhaps he was aware of some superiority in woman - the superiority of love. No logic can be higher than love, and no mind can be higher than the heart. But the mind can be very murderous; the mind can be very violent, and that's what the mind has done for centuries. Man has been beating women, repressing women, condemning women.

We are wrong to fear superiority of mind and soul; this superiority is very moral, for understanding everything makes a person tolerant and the capacity to feel deeply inspires great goodness.

I know no other sign of superiority than Goodness.

There still shines the most important nuance by virtue of which the noble felt themselves to be men of a higher rank. They designate themselves simply by their superiority in power (as "the powerful," "the masters," "the commanders") or by the most clearly visible signs of this superiority, for example, as "the rich," "the possessors" (this is the meaning of 'Arya,' and of corresponding words in Iranian and Slavic).

The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.

As one by one I mowed them down, my superiority soon became apparent

HATRED, n. A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority.

A woman who occupies the same realm of thought with man, who can explore with him the depths of science, comprehend the steps of progress through the long past and prophesy those of the momentous future, must ever be surprised and aggravated with his assumptions of leadership and superiority, a superiority she never concedes, an authority she utterly repudiates.

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it.

Superiority is always detested.

The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority.

Everybody loves to find fault, it gives a feeling of superiority.

A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.

All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; Learn that every Muslim is a brother to every Muslim and that the Muslims constitute one brotherhood. Nothing shall be legitimate to a Muslim which belongs to a fellow Muslim unless it was given freely and willingly. Do not, therefore, do injustice to yourselves.

Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority; perfect equality affords no temptation.

Most do violence to their natural aptitude, and thus attain superiority in nothing.

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.

Surprise becomes effective when we suddenly face the enemy at one point with far more troops than he expected. This type of numerical superiority is quite distinct from numerical superiority in general: it is the most powerful medium in the art of war.

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.

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.

Air superiority is the ultimate expression of military power.

Beauty is a natural superiority.

There is no such thing as human superiority.

My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people.

Tolerance is the assumption of superiority

Cool superiority as a mask for overflowing insecurity.

It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.

There is no remedy but love for the great superiority of others

The greatest threat to compassion is the temptation to succumb to fantasies of moral superiority.

One needs either equality or political and economic superiority.

Everybody from the Bay has a superiority complex because we're dope.

Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.

Atheism, a religion dedicated to its own sense of smug superiority.

Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.

People incline to doubt the superiority of a person who will associate with them.

Atheism: the religion devoted to the worship of one's own smug sense of superiority.

Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.

To feel strong, to walk amongst humans with a tremendous feeling of confidence and superiority is not at all wrong. The sense of superiority in bodily strength is borne out by the long history of mankind paying homage in folklore, song and poetry to strong men

All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.

Biological Superiority: The World's Most Dangerous and Deadly Idea.

Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs. The heaviest charge we can bring against the general texture of society is that it is commonplace. Our fancied superiority to others is in some one thing which we think most of because we excel in it, or have paid most attention to it; whilst we overlook their superiority to us in something else which they set equal and exclusive store by.

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique.

I am marooned on a Crag of Superiority in an ocean of soldiers.

I have a superiority complex I need to get rid of.

Strange, that certain superiority the goer-away feels for the stayer-at-home.

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.

... if we say that the Father is the origin of the Son and greater than the Son, we do not suggest any precedence in time or superiority in nature of the Father over the Son (cf. Jn. 14:28)? or superiority in any other respect save causation. And we mean by this, that the Son is begotten of the Father and not the Father of the Son, and that the Father naturally is the cause of the Son.

The hardest thing to attain... is the appreciation of difference without insisting on superiority.

A Christian is one who rejoices in the superiority of a rival.

Racism is a belief in the inherent superiority of one race over another.