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Inferiority Quotes

Inferiority Definition  
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A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else.
John B. Keane

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.
Samuel Johnson

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
Cesare Pavese

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.
Marilyn French

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.
Carter G. Woodson

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.
Alfred Adler

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
Elbert Hubbard

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.
Gloria Steinem

I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.
Ed Smith

I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.
Barry Gibb

I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.
Peter Matthiessen

Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.
Lord Chesterfield

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
Philip Stanhope

One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.
Alvin Ailey

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.
Sun Tzu

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I've told the story often about how that inspired me later in life to get involved in other things, because I couldn't out-do my brothers in sports, and it's a very competitive relationship.
George J. Mitchell

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

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

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