#superiority

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#moral #pretensions #superiority

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil. ↗

— James Smithson

#earth #error #evil #found #greatness

My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#due #other #over #people #personal

All sensible Army people turned gas warfare down as being utterly insane since, in view of your superiority in the air, it would not be long before it would bring the most terrible catastrophe upon German cities, which were completely unprotected. ↗

— Albert Speer

#army #before #being #bring #catastrophe

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals. ↗

— Peter Singer

#equals #fact #hard #man #our

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

#biological #fact #natural #reality #socially

I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#empowerment #equality #experience #freedom #gender

People always make the mistake of thinking art is created for them. But really, art is a private language for sophisticates to congratulate themselves on their superiority to the rest of the world. As my artist’s statement explains, my work is utterly incomprehensible and is therefore full of deep significance. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#modern-art #sophistication #superiority #art

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#equality #freedom #gender #independence #men

The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to the sex, but in the perfection of conduct and virtues. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#conduct #double-standards #empowerment #equality #gender