Definition of Inferiority

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Definition of Inferiority
	Inferiority The state of being inferior; a lower state or condition; as, inferiority of rank, of talents, of age, of worth. Related Definitions: Age, As, Being, Condition, Inferior, Inferiority, Lower, Of, Or, Rank, State, The, Worth

Inferiority Quotations

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.

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.
Sun Tzu

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
Alfred Adler

The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
Alfred Adler

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

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
Alfred Adler

The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.
Carter G. Woodson

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

Inferiority Translations

inferiority in German is Minderwertigkeit
inferiority in Spanish is inferioridad

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