Inferiority Quotes

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

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.

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

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.

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.

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.

When I first began, the technicians, camera and makeup men made me feel so self-conscious that I began to have the biggest inferiority complex about my looks.

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.

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.

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.

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

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.

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

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.

Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.