Inferiority Quotes

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

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.

I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.

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

To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.

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.

Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.

One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.

To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.

I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.

It's always at the back of my mind that acting might come to an end for me when Harry Potter finishes. I don't know if I'm good enough to have a long career. I've got a bit of an inferiority complex about my acting. My self-esteem is quite low in that sense.

Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected.

Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.

A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else.

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

The supposed inferiority of a constructed language to a national one on the score of richness of connotation is, of course, no criticism of the idea of a constructed language.

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

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.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.

I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't train. Then it gets tiring. And you do get bored of it.

So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I've told the story often about how that inspired me later in life to get involved in other things, because I couldn't out-do my brothers in sports, and it's a very competitive relationship.

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