Inferior Quotes

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.

The city is as large as Seville or Cordova; its streets, I speak of the principal ones, are very wide and straight; some of these, and all the inferior ones, are half land and half water, and are navigated by canoes.

For so many years, I felt so insecure, so inferior, and I still have those moments, but I have a newfound confidence since I got in shape and changed my diet.

Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

To all those who have drawn the inference from my words that Africa, as a continent, is somehow genetically inferior, I can only apologise unreservedly.

To terrify children with the image of hell... to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.

We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.

I mean I don't want to feel inferior to any other golfer in the world. You know if you do that, then you know you're giving them an advantage, you know, right off the - you know, right from the start.

If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change.

Elegance is inferior to virtue.

Four years ago maybe we thought we were inferior to Brazil, subconsciously we didn't see ourselves beating them. Now we believe in ourselves, we can be on the pitch with any team in the world and think we can win.

He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.

You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had to play in sort of these inferior type dives.

If one race be inferior to the other socially, the Constitution of the United States cannot put them upon the same plane.

I think I have a superior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it.

The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach "one language." No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.

To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self.

I don't want to be married to someone who feels inferior to my success or because I make more money than he does.

I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.

But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem.

When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.

One often has need of one, inferior to himself.

Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women.

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.

The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.