#infer

The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#magnus-bane #the-infernal-devices #magnus-bane

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority. ↗

— John C. Calhoun

#down #inferiority #into #life #nothing

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#benefits #gratitude #impatient #inferiority #minds

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.

#discrimination #dominating #every #gnaws #inferiority

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#his #how #inferiors #man #measure

The supposed inferiority of a constructed language to a national one on the score of richness of connotation is, of course, no criticism of the idea of a constructed language. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#constructed #course #criticism #idea #inferiority

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

#hand #hands #history #however #inferior

Elegance is inferior to virtue. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#inferior #virtue

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

#experienced #grandparents #growing #growing up #had

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself. ↗

— Plato

#inferiority #politics #rule #political