#superior

You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers. ↗

— James Wolfe

#compose #dread #forces #know #numbers

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#degraded #fact #in fact #manly #men

Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity. ↗

— Margaret Halsey

#confronted #fall #known #superior #swords

Miss Jenkyns wore a cravat, and a little bonnet like a jockey-cap, and altogether had the appearance of a strong-minded woman; although she would have despised the modern idea of women being equal to men. Equal, indeed! she knew they were superior. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#men #strength-of-character #superiority #women #equality

The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#admit #concern #does #first #himself

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#extraordinary #mankind #must #pretensions #race

My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#civilisation #colony #disprove #dumping #either

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. ↗

— Bruce Barton

#been #believe #circumstance #dared #ever

People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

#bent #breeding #caliber #good #good breeding

There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to. ↗

— Janis Ian

#backward #feel #ignorant #just #need