#superiority

Women particularly should concern themselves with peace because men by nature are more foolhardy and headstrong, and their overwhelming desire to avenge themselves prevents them from foreseeing the resulting dangers and terrors of war. But woman by nature is more gentle and circumspect. Therefore, if she has sufficient will and wisdom she can provide the best possible means to pacify man. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#circumspection #empowerment #men #peace #peacemaking

A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#assert #deal #dealing #get #hard

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#fundamentalist #got #haven #i #stuff

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#break #establish #great #great minds #intellectual

In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#blacks #clear #compared #evidence #fact

What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers. ↗

— Flora Tristan

#contrast #england #exists #intellectual #revolting

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

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it. ↗

— George Byron

#any #confirms #day #every #every day

Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible. ↗

— Walter Lang

#bible #christ #come #curse #essentially

I look back on my liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe. ↗

— David Mamet

#back #beliefs #could #describe #exercise