#inferiority

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

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

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

#another #anyone #because #demonstrate #determined

When I first began, the technicians, camera and makeup men made me feel so self-conscious that I began to have the biggest inferiority complex about my looks. ↗

— Jessie Matthews

#began #biggest #camera #complex #feel

It's such a shame that we know so little about our own country, that we can't find it in our hearts to love our own kind. Instead we admire those who show our country disrespect and betray its people. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#patriotism #superiority #love

Remember you don't own people, let them decide, choose and live. There is no inferiority and superiority; it is just your crazy imagination. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#superiority #imagination

[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#husbands #inequality #inferiority #marriage #matrimony

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

— John C. Calhoun

#down #inferiority #into #life #nothing

The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one's own accord - it feels great - but to be taught often leaves a feeling of inferiority. Thus it takes a bit of determination and a lot of humility in order for one to fully develop. ↗

— Criss Jami

#barrier #determination #development #feelings #help