Top 1200 Superiority Complex Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.

Numerical superiority is of no consequence. In battle, victory will go to the best tactician."- G. A. Custer

Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect all others to an extraordinary degree. Someone should be studying the whole system, however crudely that has to be done, because no gluing together of partial studies of a complex nonlinear system can give a good idea of the behavior of the whole.

There is no need for an end to fish, or to fishing for that matter. But there is an urgent need for governments to free themselves from the fishing-industrial complex and its Ponzi scheme, to stop subsidizing the fishing-industrial complex and awarding it fishing rights, when it should in fact pay for the privilege to fish.

Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits.

The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.

We have a closed circle of consistency here: the laws of physics produce complex systems, and these complex systems lead to consciousness, which then produces mathematics, which can then encode in a succinct and inspiring way the very underlying laws of physics that gave rise to it.

People often imagine that being hard to please confers a certain superiority.

A favorite means of escaping the solution to any problem is to declare it too complex for solution. This absolves us from attempting solution. ... Any problem is too complex to solve when we do not wish to accept the conditions of solution. Solution is possible where acceptance is ready.

My pictures are complex and so am I. When I am almost symbolistic in writing, there is a more limiting difference’s of accepting, while I can be even more complex in the photographs and people can usually accept them within the framework of their own limitations or lack of limitations – there is no dictionary meaning… they can look up for the photographic image and allow it to confuse them.

The superiority of the American system is eloquently proved by the pressure of people who want to crash our borders.

I think that the solution of the question of numerical superiority of Russian conventional forces has to be solved.

Tally, do you ever suffer from sudden flashes of anger or euphoria, countersocial impulses, or feelings of superiority?

The critics can say stupid things and we can enjoy them, if we have the legitimate feeling of superiority - the satisfaction of a duty accomplished.

Melodies can be good depending on the context. You can have a simple melody, and if the harmony behind it is interesting, it can make a very simple melody really different. You can also have a complex melody. The more complex it is, the harder it is to sing, and then sometimes it can sound contrived. You could write a melody that would be fine on a saxophone but if you give it to a singer, it can sound raunchy.

To be mediocre, when only application and diligence would have netted superiority, is an error akin to sin.

If it were ever allowable to forget what is due to superiority of rank, it would be when the privileged themselves remember it.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: this triptych succinctly defines the attractiveness and superiority of Western civilization.

Where absolute superiority is not attainable, you must produce a relative one at the decisive point by making skillful use ofwhat you have.

There is a difference between our wisdom and nature's simplicity. That reflects the burden of a complex intelligence. A complex intelligence like ours is impotent compared to the intelligence of a monarch butterfly migrating from Canada to Mexico, or the intelligence of hummingbirds that have co-evolved with the flowers all along their migration route. That seems so simple; it just happens, it just unfolds.

Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.

Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.

What can defeat greed, technological superiority, and legal lawlessness ... is discipline, consciousness, and unity.

The superiority...enjoyed by nations that have...perfected a branch of industry, constitutes a...formidable obstacle.

I love it when people try to manufacture an injustice out of a position of clear superiority.

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.

Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America.

Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals.

Be kind; you're only here for a while. No sense of superiority, just do things for others. It's really fun.

Unwittingly, the feminists acknowledge the superiority of the male sex by wishing to become like men.

I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighboring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded air of superiority.

As we build systems that are more and more complex, we make more and more subtle but very high-impact mistakes. As we use computers for more things and as we build more complex systems, this problem of unreliability and insecurity is actually getting worse, with no real sign of abating anytime soon.

The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised.

It must always be borne in mind that the assumption of woman's social superiority lies at the root of these rules of conduct.

Whatever the scenario, the dynamism of developing nations, their demographics and competitive power are great sources for superiority.

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.

Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.

If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class.

Being six feet off the ground does give one a sense of superiority.

Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority.

All the distinctive features and superiority of our republican institutions are derived from the teachings of Scripture.

People who espouse Intelligent Design believe nature is so complex as to require an intelligent designer-God. Similarly, liberals believe the economy is so complex as to require an intelligent designer-government.

Censoriously asserting one's moral superiority and treating skeptics as imbeciles and deplorables wins few converts.

Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival.

Welfarism and excessive spending and deficits and socialism divide us, because everybody has to go to Washington. Those who have the biggest clout, whose who are the best lobbyists, those who go and they grab. And whether it's the medical industrial complex, or the banking industry, or the military industrial complex, that's who ends up controlling our government...

To talk about the superiority of an ethnic group on the basis of some points of difference on IQ tests is idiotic.

The superiority of the Greeks seems not so much the result of climate and society, as of the simplicity of their end and the uniformity of their means.

Theorems often tell us complex truths about the simple things, but only rarely tell us simple truths about the complex ones. To believe otherwise is wishful thinking or "mathematics envy."

All art that is not mere storytelling, or mere portraiture, is symbolic, and has the purpose of those symbolic talismans which medieval magicians made with complex colours and forms, and bade their patients ponder over daily, and guard with holy secrecy; for it entangles, in complex colours and forms, a part of the Divine Essence.

Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.

Superiority to Fate Is difficult to gain 'Tis not conferred of Any But possible to earn.

Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple stupid behavior.

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.

Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.

It was obvious-to me at any rate-that the answer was to why an enzyme is able to speed up a chemical reaction by as much as 10 million times. It had to do this by lowering the energy of activation-the energy of forming the activated complex. It could do this by forming strong bonds with the activated complex, but only weak bonds with the reactants or products.