#superior

There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomfortable in the presence of someone who is distinctly superior in whatever way. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

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Authority is not a quality one person "has," in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#authority #him #interpersonal #looks #person

Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts. ↗

— Serge Gainsbourg

#because #lasts #superior #ugliness #way

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. ↗

— Romain Gary

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Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#either #equate #extended #intrinsic #look

But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here. ↗

— John Marshall Harlan

#citizens #class #constitution #country #dominant

Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us. ↗

— Michael Johnson

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One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down. ↗

— Pauline Kael

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I was even superior to the Communists and when they didn't go along with me, I quit them. ↗

— Elia Kazan

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