Quotes on Inferiors

The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.

Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.

Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.

Generally in war the best policy is to take a state intact; to ruin it is inferior to this.

Thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory: He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces. He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks. He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared. He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.

When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.

To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation - is that good for the world?

Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly.

It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork.

That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up.

In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.

Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.

Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.

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.

At heart, he could not abide sense in women: he liked to see them as silly, as light-headed, as vain, as open to ridicule as possible; because they were then in reality what he held them to be, and wished them to be,--inferior: toys to play with, to amuse a vacant hour and to be thrown away.

The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does.

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.

Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first.