Top Inferiority Quotes
The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.
Carter G. Woodson
Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.
Sun Tzu
We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
Henri Bergson
I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.
Ed Smith
To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.
Earl Warren
Philip Stanhope 
Alfred Adler 
Carter G. Woodson 
Alvin Ailey 
Marcus Tullius Cicero 
Martin Luther King, Jr. 
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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.
John C. Calhoun 
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Samuel Johnson
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When I first began, the technicians, camera and makeup men made me feel so self-conscious that I began to have the biggest inferiority complex about my looks.
Jessie Matthews
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Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.
Simone de Beauvoir
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When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.
Simone de Beauvoir
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The supposed inferiority of a constructed language to a national one on the score of richness of connotation is, of course, no criticism of the idea of a constructed language.
Edward Sapir
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So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I've told the story often about how that inspired me later in life to get involved in other things, because I couldn't out-do my brothers in sports, and it's a very competitive relationship.
George J. Mitchell
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Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.
Alfred Adler
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The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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