Superiority Quotes

I know no other sign of superiority than Goodness. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world. View quote
Leonard Cohen
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves. View quote
William Ellery Channing
Humour is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. View quote
Romain Gary
The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman. View quote
Henry James
It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot. View quote
Mark Twain
I believe in what I believe, and I think after all these years I've heard a lot of arguments, and I'm convinced by the superiority of the arguments that are made on the conservative side. I think that's a better way to run a society. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do. (Samuel P. Huntington)
All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals. View quote
Peter Singer
So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world. View quote
Jules Verne
God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos He will set them above their betters. View quote
H. L. Mencken
There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting. View quote
Sydney J. Harris
The western nations of Europe, who now so immeasurably surpass their former savage progenitors, and stand at the summit of civilization, owe little or none of their superiority to direct inheritance from the old Greeks, though they owe much to the written works of that wonderful people. View quote
Charles Darwin
I don't think, sir, that you have a right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station. And if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their women. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view. (Alfred Adler)
Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment brutally imposed on him, but by a conscience superior to his own, the superiority of which he feels. Because the greater, better part of his existence transcends the body, he escapes the body's yoke, but is subject to that of society. View quote
Émile Durkheim
I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy superiority). View quote
Gore Vidal
The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a much vaster and varied pleasure than the action man. In better and more direct words, the dreamer is the real action man. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little. View quote
Samuel Johnson