Superior Quotes

I do think sometimes people get morally superior without understanding situations.

Very good wine was bought at ten pounds per pipe, the contract price; but the superior quality was fifteen pounds; and some of this was not much inferior to the best London Madeira.

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

Superior people never make long visits.

In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down.

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.

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.

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.

I wish I could walk into a room and feel superior and have my nose up at everybody, but I can't, because I know I'm just a huge nerd, and that wouldn't work for me.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.

Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

I'm not a genetically superior person. I built my body.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomfortable in the presence of someone who is distinctly superior in whatever way.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

If Romney explains why where we are with Obama is unacceptable, why whither we are tending is even worse - and why his own alternative path forward is superior - then we trust the American people to make the right choice in November.

Defense is superior to opulence.

My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the world.

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.

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.

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor.

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.