Superiority Quotes

"A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?"
-Rudolf Nureyev

"If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point."
-Antonio Porchia

"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."
-Mark Twain

"One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority."
-Napoleon Bonaparte

"The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance."
-Benjamin Disraeli

"Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority; you have none."
-Giuseppe Mazzini

"Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him."
-Romain Gary

"While we are concerned that our established HD DVD partner has chosen to make this announcement at this time, we remain supremely confident in the superiority of the HD DVD format."
-Mark Knox

"I think it stems from a basic insecurity, originally, but also a sense of superiority."
-Barry Miles

"Well, the very fact that no one's ever done it is testimony to how difficult it is. It's almost impossible to stay in that superiority position because of the very nature of the game."
-Ara Parseghian

"A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility."
-Lawrence G. Lovasik

"OVEREAT, v. To dine. Hail, Gastronome, Apostle of Excess, Well skilled to overeat without distress! Thy great invention, the unfatal feast, Shows Man's superiority to Beast. John Boop."
-Ambrose Bierce

"The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world."
-Leonard Cohen

"The person, who causes the downfall of a noble woman... who causes loss to his friend...who despite of his superiority is ignorant; is called a fallen man."
-Atharva Veda

"Our inner growth should now be able to expand beyond the superiority complex of our own civilization, now that we know that the ancient Maya had attained a level of cosmic understanding that modern science has not grasped."
-John Jenkins

"This transaction confirms the value and superiority of the technology developed by Shazam, and permits us to now focus our activities on continuing to exploit the significant opportunities of mobile entertainment markets."
-Andrew Fisher

"There are thousands of degrees and variations, but it is always clearly the attitude of a person who finds his superiority in solving the complications of others."
-Alfred Adler

"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

"It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil."
-James Smithson

"All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals."
-Peter Singer

"The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself."
-Joseph Sobran

"Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible."
-Walter Lang

"Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals."
-Harry Lorayne

"Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing."
-Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"Disarmament should be conducive to the enhancement of every country's general security instead of becoming the instrument and means for a few countries to strengthen their military superiority by weakening or restricting other countries."
-Sha Zukang

"Linux is legally sound, provides bottom-line business value and technical superiority."
-Stuart Cohen

"The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority."
-Hitopadesa

"Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it."
-William Shenstone