Definition of Superiority

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Definition of Superiority
	Superiority The quality, state, or condition of being superior; as, superiority of rank; superiority in merit. Related Definitions: As, Being, Condition, In, Merit, Of, Or, Quality, Rank, State, Superior, Superiority, The

Superiority Quotations

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.
George Washington

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.
Lord Byron

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.
Mary Wollstonecraft

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
Leonard Cohen

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
Adam Smith

A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.
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

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.
Simone de Beauvoir

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

Superiority Translations

superiority in Latin is praestantia prestantia
superiority in Spanish is superioridad

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