Quotes with inferiority

  • The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.
  • Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.

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  • Alfred Adler The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Alfred Adler Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Bell Hooks Since anti-racist individuals did not control mass media, the media became the primary tool that would be used and is still used to convince black viewers, and everyone else, of black inferiority.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Alan Kay Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
    Alan Kay
    American computer scientist (1940 - )
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  • Cesare Pavese All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Carter G. Woodson Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Gloria Steinem For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Lord Chesterfield Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • James Baldwin Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
    Source: Nobody Knows My Name (1961)
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Carter G. Woodson 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
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Mark Twain The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • William Bolitho The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.
    William Bolitho
    South African journalist, writer and biographer
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  • John C. Calhoun The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.
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  • Carter G. Woodson The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Samuel Johnson There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Unfortunately, there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and darker it is. If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct it. Furthermore, it is constantly in contact with other interests, so that it is continually subjected to modifications. But if it is repressed and isolated from consciousness, it never gets co
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Alfred Adler We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Simone de Beauvoir When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.
    Simone de Beauvoir
    French writer and philosopher (1908 - 1986)
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