Superior Quotes

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

People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.

Yes, the European model remains superior to that of America and Japan.

I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.

Having marshalled the men in battle order, as shown in the first diagram, you will observe that each party has two ranks of men, on the first of which stand the superior Pieces, and on the next the eight Pawns.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards.

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.

No one man is superior to the game.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

I don't think anyone will deny that girls are academically superior as a group.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

It is conceded by all that man is the very highest type of all living creatures on the earth. His intelligence is far superior to that of any other earthly being.

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

The American advertiser has made the superior American magazine of today possible.

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.

The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

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.

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.