Inferior Quotes

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
Confucius

But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?
Robert Kennedy

God, Black, Lives

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
Katharine Hepburn

Women, Sex, Until

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
H. L. Mencken

Fear, Else, Wants

The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.
Lord Jeffrey

May, Taken, Sign

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
Elie Wiesel

Faith, Human, Wrong

So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior.
Steven Biko

Human, Same, Superior

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Rights, Whose, Foot

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
Edmund Burke

Business, Person, Plan

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
William Butler Yeats

Conscience, Leave, Mankind

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.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Strength, Eyes, Others

Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.
Abu Bakr

Great, God, Down

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
Arthur Schopenhauer

History, Second, Hand

The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.
Don Shula

Others, Himself, Superior

When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.
Simone de Beauvoir

Become, Fact, Situation

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.
Simone de Beauvoir

Society, Woman, Away

To terrify children with the image of hell... to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?
Christopher Hitchens

Good, Women, Children

I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.
Hank Aaron

Life, Before, Makes

One often has need of one, inferior to himself.
Jean de La Fontaine

I must quit marrying men who feel inferior to me. Somewhere there must be a man who could be my husband and not feel inferior.
Hedy Lamarr

Men, Husband, Quit

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.
Alan Kay

Time, Mind, Flower

Four years ago maybe we thought we were inferior to Brazil, subconsciously we didn't see ourselves beating them. Now we believe in ourselves, we can be on the pitch with any team in the world and think we can win.
Rio Ferdinand

Win, Thought, Team

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

Revenge, Once, Sweet

There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.
William Jennings Bryan

Small, Reason, Animal

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
Thomas Mann

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.
Philip Larkin

Simple, Children, May

Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous.
David Ogilvy

Experience, Same, Cannot

The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach 'one language.' No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
Al Sharpton

Fight, Before, America

I was in fact pretty much - by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on TV - encouraged to imagine women as something slightly inferior to men.
Junot Diaz

Women, Men, Pretty

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