Top 1200 Superiority Complex Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Technically speaking, since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents,they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities. These disruptions can, with minimum expense, have considerably destructive consequences. Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.

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

Air superiority is the ultimate expression of military power.

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

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

Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic.

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

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.

But there are still people whose moral superiority defeats your own.

What is the beauty of the haiku is that it is not simplistic. The beauty of the haiku I just said is very complex. It reaches all the complexities of our life on this Earth. Peace - that's a very complex idea, peace, so we can't get it as human beings.

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

There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.

The most basic act of awareness or knowing that we can demonstrate in science. I postulate that that is the very basis of why we're conscious at all, that it is this relationship at the quantum level as matter evolves into more complex form, including plants and animals and living substance and ourselves, that this area of consciousness as an awareness becomes more and more complex.

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

The more complex our economy, the more we should rely on the miraculous, self-adapting processes of men acting freely. No mind of man nor any combination of minds can even envision, let alone intelligently control, the countless human energy exchanges in a simple society, to say nothing of a complex one.

Let no man, in whatever rank or superiority, control your mind and tell you what to do

The real objection to the great majority of cats is their insufferable air of superiority.

My thing is, if you're going to put stuff in your body, it's going to be beneficial. Clean carbs, complex carbs, good proteins, a balanced diet. It's difficult to do it on a consistent basis, but it's pretty straightforward: fish, chicken, lean red meat, vegetables, fruits, complex carbs. The hardest part is putting on the work.

The more we learn of the true nature of non-human animals, especially those with complex brains and corresponding complex social behavior, the more ethical concerns are raised regarding their use in the service of man - whether this be in entertainment, as "pets," for food, in research laboratories, or any of the other uses to which we subject them.

Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it.

Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.

One needs either equality or political and economic superiority.

Greater powers and resources do not guarantee tactical superiority.

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

Everyone's heard about the military-industrial complex, but they know very little about the medical-industrial complex...(in) a medical arms race.

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

We're interested in complex characters and he's a complex character, [J. Edgar] Hoover. I like these types of dramas. I've made a few of them and I'm also interested in power structures so it just has elements that fascinate me, and the more you learn about Hoover, the more polarizing you realize he is.

We are unconscious of most of our body's processes, thank goodness, because we'd screw it up if we weren't. The human body is so complex, with so many parts...a system which is far more complex than we can fully imagine. The idea that we are consciously care-taking such a large and mysterious system is ludicrous.

To be loved, we should merit but little esteem; all superiority attracts awe and aversion.

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

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

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

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

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

When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't train. Then it gets tiring. And you do get bored of it.

Because for me, '60s pop music is amongst the most complicated or complex music because it has so many resonances which strike you. The music itself is often simple, but the way that I interpret it, or the way I think it's interpreted culturally, is very complex.

First the body has to become utterly relaxed, like a small child, then only start with the mind. Move scientifically: first the simplest, then the complex, then the more complex. And then only can you relax at the ultimate core.

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

CEOs hate variance. It's the enemy. Variance in customer service is bad. Variance in quality is bad. CEOs love processes that are standardized, routinized, predictable. Stamping out variance makes a complex job a bit less complex.

We lived by very complex import and export policies, a very complex industrial licensing regime. Very few people could get licences, which were required right from manufacturing a pin to manufacturing a car, and generally went to people who found favour with the government.

'The Big Lebowski' gave me my first false sense of intellectual superiority.

When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn’t go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn’t train. Then it gets tiring. And you do get bored of it.

Real history is far more complex and interesting than the simplistic summaries presented in Wikipedia articles. Knowing this allows you to question received wisdom, to challenge 'facts' 'everybody' knows to be true, and to imagine worlds and characters worthy of our rich historical heritage and our complex selves.

I'm intrigued more and more by complex female characters because I'm more in touch with myself. I realize how screwed up or complex I am. And I'm flattered that, little by little, more and more directors want to meet me.

I know no other sign of superiority than Goodness.

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

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

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

Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.

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

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

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

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

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

The purpose of life is to help others, and if you can't help them, won't you at least not hurt them? I know that is a platitude, that that is sentimental and can easily be attacked. But loving, caring is simple, and we make it complex. Our own neuroses make it complex.

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.

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

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

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