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
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Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.
Mary Douglas 
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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.
Simone de Beauvoir
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A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.
Lawrence G. Lovasik
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Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.
Lord Byron
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In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture.
Hu Shih
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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.
Samuel Johnson
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Many characters in the novel are representative of types that exist in India. He represents the caste system in India with an air of superiority, the caste system in India and the people thinking that western things are better.
Anita Desai
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One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Camille PagliaWilliam Ellery ChanningAlfred AdlerSimone de BeauvoirHenri BergsonMary DouglasPeter SingerCarter G. WoodsonGeorge ByronPaul HarrisWalter LangAdam SmithAlexander SmithMary WollstonecraftJohn Philip Sousa
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