#inferiority

When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't train. Then it gets tiring. And you do get bored of it. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition. ↗

— Cesare Pavese

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A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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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

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

— John C. Calhoun

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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

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I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority. ↗

— Peter Matthiessen

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

— Carter G. Woodson

#even #inferiority #must #places #schools

Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#enjoy #friends #inferiority #you #your

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

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