#inferiority

The question of whether one alleges the Superiority or Inferiority of any given race is irrelevant; racism has only one psychological root: the racist's sense of his own Inferiority. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#psychological #racism #racism

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#characteristic #compensate #confer #inferiority #intelligence

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#encourage #his #inferiority #pretend

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

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#fear #inferiority #thought

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

#bored #complex #complexes #get #gets

So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I've told the story often about how that inspired me later in life to get involved in other things, because I couldn't out-do my brothers in sports, and it's a very competitive relationship. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#because #brothers #competitive #complex #developed

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

— Cesare Pavese

#called #inferiority #origin #otherwise #sense

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

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

— John C. Calhoun

#down #inferiority #into #life #nothing