Quotes with superior

  • Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
  • I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
  • Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
  • The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.
  • Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
  • Hope is a flatterer but the most upright of all parasites for she frequents the poor man's hut as well as the palace of his superior.
  • The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
  • Birds themselves are so interesting and intelligent, and they give so many cues without being verbal, so they say such great things. Feathers are superior to fur, even. They're so beautiful, and nature uses such amazing colors.
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  • Socrates Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Plato All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Aristotle Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Confucius The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Confucius The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Confucius The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Confucius The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Confucius The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Ouida To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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  • Confucius What the superior person seeks is in themselves. What the mean person seeks is in others.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Baltasar Gracian All victories breed hate, and that over your superior is foolish or fatal.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Ada Leverson As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.
    Loves Shadow (1908) Ch. xxxix
    Ada Leverson
    British writer (1862 - 1933)
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  • Mark Twain As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized!
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Buddy Hackett At the Sahara, the seats are banked and most of the audience is looking down at the stage. Everybody in the business knows: Up for singers, down for comics. The people want to idealize a singer. They want to feel superior to a comic. You're trying to make them laugh. They can't laugh at someone they're looking up to.
    Buddy Hackett
    American actor and comedian (1924 - 2003)
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  • Erich Fromm Authority is not a quality one person ''has,'' in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Bibhu Mohapatra Birds themselves are so interesting and intelligent, and they give so many cues without being verbal, so they say such great things. Feathers are superior to fur, even. They're so beautiful, and nature uses such amazing colors.
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  • Adam Smith Defense is superior to opulence.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Dale Carnegie Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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