Inferior Quotes

To be human means to feel inferior. (Alfred Adler)
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind. View quote
William Butler Yeats
I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman. View quote
Graham Greene
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business. View quote
Edmund Burke
We seldom call any body lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some Service. View quote
Bernard Mandeville
Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation-is that good for the world? View quote
Christopher Hitchens
No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. (Elie Wiesel)
PIG, n. An animal ('Porcus omnivorus') closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim. View quote
Emil Cioran
I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland. View quote
Sydney Smith
Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness. View quote
Guy de Maupassant
To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way. View quote
Stephen Ambrose
Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote. View quote
Louise Slaughter
The apportionment of taxes on the various descriptions of property is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality; yet there is, perhaps, no legislative act in which greater opportunity and temptation are given to a predominant party to trample on the rules of justice. Every shilling which they overburden the inferior number is a shilling saved to their own pockets. View quote
James Madison
The need to speak the truth and even to seek it for oneself is only conceivable in so far as the individual thinks and acts as one of a society, and not of any society (for it is just the constraining relations between superior and inferior that often drive the latter to prevarication) but of a society founded on reciprocity and mutual respect, and therefore on cooperation. View quote
Jean Piaget
With a higher moral nature will come a restriction on the multiplication of the inferior. View quote
Herbert Spencer
[Women] Inferior? Superior! I am sexist, of course. (Janusz Korwin-Mikke)
It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
A beetle may or may not be inferior to a man - the matter awaits demonstration; but if he were inferior by ten thousand fathoms, the fact remains that there is probably a beetle view of things of which a man is entirely ignorant. If he wishes to conceive that point of view, he will scarcely reach it by persistently revelling in the fact that he is not a beetle. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
We want to determine whether he understands the inherent limits that make an unelected Judiciary inferior to Congress or the President in making policy judgments. That, for example, a judge will never be in the best position to know what is in the national security interests of our country. View quote
Alberto Gonzales
The past is necessarily inferior to the future. That is how we wish it to be. How could we acknowledge any merit in our most dangerous enemy: the past, gloomy prevaricator, execrable tutor? View quote
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti