Inferiority Quotes
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I am often struck by the anxious inferiority many well-educated British people display towards the U.S., particularly Londoners dazzled by New York, when many postcolonials are accustomed to regarding Britain's old imperial cosmopolis as the true capital of the western world.
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I come from an overly confident place. But I'm overconfident because of feelings of inferiority.
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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It is not the inferiority of women that has caused their historical insignificance; it is rather their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority.
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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.
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Never abandon the possibility of attack. Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy's plans. This often results in improving one's own position.
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The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack.
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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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The law is the survival of the fittest.... The law is not the survival of the 'better' or the 'stronger,' if we give to those words any thing like their ordinary meanings. It is the survival of those which are constitutionally fittest to thrive under the conditions in which they are placed; and very often that which, humanly speaking, is inferiority, causes the survival.
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I'm an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
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Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice does not reason, or it would not be prejudice... If prejudice could reason, it would dispel itself.
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When an individual (or a group of individuals) is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he is inferior.
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The inferiority of women is man-made.
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Envy is a declaration of inferiority.
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It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own sex, because she has points of inferiority.
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When you think that you are beautiful, you are liable to think that you are more beautiful than others, and such a thought is not a beautiful thought. To recognize or criticize ugliness and inferiority in others is to create the inferior and the ugly in yourself, and what you create in yourself will sooner or later be expressed through your mind and personality.
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I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness ... Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.
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Envy suggests inferiority.
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We all have a lifelong habit of inferiority to our full self..."
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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection.
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Does a little fish, swimming though the net's eye, suffer from inferiority complex?
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Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.
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God will cease to be God, if he brought into being a single person with the hall-mark of inferiority.
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Conceit is an outward manifestation of inferiority.
