#inferior

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

#being #decrees #destroying #inferior #inferiority

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

— Simone de Beauvoir

#does #fact #individual #inferior #inferiority

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance. ↗

— Jane Austen

#clichés #desirability #disdain #education #empowerment

One often has need of one, inferior to himself. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#inferior #need #often

I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing. ↗

— Richard Wagner

#am #beings #fond #full #i

To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone. ↗

— Earl Warren

#age #because #children #community #ever

To all those who have drawn the inference from my words that Africa, as a continent, is somehow genetically inferior, I can only apologise unreservedly. ↗

— James D. Watson

#apologise #continent #drawn #genetically #i

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

— Elie Wiesel

#faith #human #human race #inferior #judgments

Black people are inferior to Caucasians. Blacks constitute a totally distinct group; they overshadow the country with the germ... of evil. ↗

— David Wilmot

#blacks #constitute #country #distinct #evil

The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#book #class #enters #every #him