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Superiority Quotes (page 9)

We are only seeking Man. We have no need for other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is. We are searching for an ideal image of our own world: we go in quest of a planet, of a civilization superior of our own but developed on the basis of a prototype of our primeval past." -Snow from Solaris by Stanislaw Lem Stanislaw Lem
Men's indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior. Thucydides
Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride-- where these is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation. Jane Austen
Be careful if you make a women cry, because God counts her tears. The woman came out of a man’s ribs. Not from his feet to be walked on, not from his head to be superior, but from his side to be equal, under the arm to be protected, and next to the heart to be loved. Matthew Henry
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "Wilson shook his head. His eyes narrowed and his mouth widened..."
Wilson shook his head. His eyes narrowed and his mouth widened slightly with the ghost of a superior ‘Hm!’. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "Visiting the sick' is an orgasm of superiority in the..."
Visiting the sick' is an orgasm of superiority in the contemplation of our neighbor's helplessness Friedrich Nietzsche
F. Franklin the Fourth has a job with a firm rich in heritage, money and pretentiousness, a firm vastly superior to Brodnax and Speer. His sidekicks at the moment are W. Harper Whittenson, an arrogant little snot who will, thankfully, leave Memphis and practice with a mega-firm in Dallas; J. Townsend Gross, who has accepted a position with another huge firm; and James Straybeck, a sometimes friendly sort who's suffered three years of law school without an initial to place before his name or ... John Grisham
Though he sought simplicity, he dread dulness. Dimly conscious that he was dull himself, he craved the stimulus of a quicker mind; yet he feared a dull wife less than a brilliant one, for with the latter how could he maintain his superiority? Edith Wharton
My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilization, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either. Christopher Hitchens
Truman Capote quote: "It is well known that women outlive men; could it merely be..."
It is well known that women outlive men; could it merely be superior vanity that keeps them going? Truman Capote
And whilst he may not claim superiority by reason of learning, I myself must not withold that meed of homage that learning, wherever it resides, always commands. Mahatma Gandhi
Augusten Burroughs quote: "Red hair is great. It's rare, and therefore superior."
Red hair is great. It's rare, and therefore superior. Augusten Burroughs
Kinky Friedman quote: "Always respect your superiors, if you have any."
Always respect your superiors, if you have any. Kinky Friedman
Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and what they can do makes them superior to men, and their proper tactic is to demand special privileges, all the traffic will bear. They should never settle merely for equality. For women, "equality" is a disaster. Robert A. Heinlein
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things..."
...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy. Gilbert K. Chesterton

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