Top Superiority Quotes
The sun as the expression of old world energy is torn down from the heavens by modern man, who by virtue of his technological superiority creates his own energy source.
El Lissitzky
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
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
Leonard Cohen
Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
Samuel Butler
There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.
Orison Swett Marden
Sydney J. Harris 
Stephen Jay Gould 
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Alfred Adler 
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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 
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Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.
Paul Harris
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Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
Adam Smith
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Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.
Jeanette Winterson
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My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people.
John Philip Sousa
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And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the "mob" - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.
Camille Paglia
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Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Romain Gary
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Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival.
Stephen Jay Gould
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Popular Superiority Authors
Samuel JohnsonSamuel ButlerOrison Swett MardenNapoleon BonaparteLord ByronGeorg C. LichtenbergArthur EricksonJeanette WintersonGeorge WashingtonCharles KuraltHenry JamesGraham GreeneGeorge Henry Lewes SallustSydney J. Harris
Camille PagliaWilliam Ellery ChanningAlfred AdlerSimone de BeauvoirHenri BergsonMary DouglasPeter SingerCarter G. WoodsonGeorge ByronPaul HarrisWalter LangAdam SmithAlexander SmithMary WollstonecraftJohn Philip Sousa
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