#superior

Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it. ↗

— Giorgio Vasari

#beautiful #creation #divine #first #god

In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down. ↗

— James Wolcott

#chicken #direction #down #easy #edited

It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#been #believe #belong #great #human

This pre-eminence is something [men] have unjustly arrogated to themselves. And when it's said that women must be subject to men, the phrase should be understood in the same sense as when we say we are subject to natural disasters, diseases, and all the other accidents of this life: it's not a case of being subjected in the sense of obeying, but rather of suffering an imposition, not a case of serving them fearfully, but rather of tolerating them in a spirit of Christian charity, since they have been given to us by God as a spiritual trial. ↗

— Moderata Fonte

#empowerment #feminism #gender #inequality #men

Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism. ↗

— Walter Lang

#any #being #concept #lead #person

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey. ↗

— Malcolm De Chazal

#looks #men #mirror #monkey #monkeys

I do think sometimes people get morally superior without understanding situations. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#i #i do #morally #people #situations

The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others. ↗

— Don Shula

#himself #inferior #man #others #superior

If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty. ↗

— Anna Howard Shaw

#enlarged #forms #free #good #government

We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in the long cold war against the Soviet Union. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#always #apply #caution #cold #cold war