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
Lawrence G. Lovasik 
Camille Paglia 
Barbara Ehrenreich 
Ashley Montagu 
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What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.
Alice James 
44% of people like this quote
I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.
Peter Matthiessen
43% of people like this quote
The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.
Carter G. Woodson
42% of people like this quote
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.
Mary Wollstonecraft
41% of people like this quote
What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.
Arthur Erickson
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Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
William Shenstone
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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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