Superiority Quotes

“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

“If you feel the need to make someone feel less assured of themselves or have to call another person out, you may gain a false sense of superiority.”
― Kristin Michelle Elizabeth

“Our culture's response to egotism is as misguided as our approach to inadequacy. When people feel and act as if they're better than others—belittling those around them, for instance, or persistently interrupting to assert their own views—we're encouraged to "bring them down a peg." According to my guides, however, people who strive for superiority are wrestling with a deep internal conflict. Disconnected at a conscious level from the genuine magnificence of their Spirit, they retain an unconscious remembrance of this innate grandeur. Longing to realize the potential they sense within, but confused by identifying only with what is commonly referred to as the ego—the limited, human aspect of their being—they believe they can feel powerful and significant only through dominating and outshining others.”
― Ellen Tadd, The Infinite View: A Guidebook for Life on Earth

“Turns out, ignorance often comes with an exciting, unexpected side effect: cruelty. To people who think they're the best the world has to offer, kindness is an afterthought and an unnecessary one at that.”
― Seanan McGuire, Tricks for Free

“God is the ultimate fantasy of the Superiority Principle. Milton’s Lucifer, the ultimate individual, the most romantic figure in all of literature, is the Superiority Principle made flesh. Lord Byron loved him. Cesare Borgia came close. Caesar or nothing, as he liked to say. Every individual loves the Prince of Darkness! As Milton declared, ‘To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav’n.’ That is the philosophy of the individual, the motto of the Superman.”
― Mark Romel

“Mediocrity naturally feels threatened in the presence of merit.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Selfishness may result in one's sense of superiority, but life as such will surely deny them.”
― Eraldo Banovac

“Don’t bow before anyone because no one is superior to you, they are only different from you!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“People love the victim only when they can feel superior to them.”
― Natascha Kampusch, 3096 Days

“The ones to fear are those who cannot realize it: the ones who just see the structure and bind themselves to it because they are otherwise afraid. They look at the structure, and they just see no other way. They cannot seek anything beyond it or do not want to. Yet, they will also vehemently deny that they are unable to venture beyond the structure and castigate others they perceive to have that inability so as to make themselves feel superior. They will even delude themselves into assuming that they are free of structural influence and will violently oppose any who say otherwise. They will say that the structures are a pragmatic necessity for social cohesion, but that they, even as willing participants in it, remain capable of acknowledging external terms and associations. They just choose not to—that’s the line they go with. They choose the structure for a lack of any better alternative and will not go
without one. Perhaps they are naïve, in that sense, and it is easy for them to believe that those who seek to negate their structures are either unscrupulous, foolish, or ego-driven.”
― Ashim Shanker, trenches parallax leapfrog

“Biological determinism is a blight on science. It implies that the way things are is the way they must be. [...] This position is wrong, both empirically and morally.”
― John Horgan

“If I need someone worse off than myself to prove my superiority, then I have no superiority”
― Sunday Adelaja, The Danger Of Monoculturalism In The XXI Century

“There is no satisfaction in being better than anyone, only empty pride.”
― Patricio Telman Chincocolo

“From constant telling, she came almost to believe in her own badness, her own intrinsic inferiority. She felt that she ought always to be in a state of slinking disgrace, if she fulfilled what was expected of her. But she rebelled. She never really believed in her own badness. At the bottom of her heart she despised the other people, who carped and were loud over trifles. She despised them, and wanted revenge on them. She hated them whilst they had power over her.

Still she kept an ideal: a free, proud lady absolved from the petty ties, existing beyond petty considerations.”
― David Herbert Lawrence, The Rainbow: Annotated

“Vincent Marc Hoherz. On Superiority.

Superiority commits to protect those inferior. #VincentMarcHoherz.<3”
― Vincent Marc Hoherz, Forever shall we be, eternally.

“Ego serves me well when I surrender the need to be right, to win, feel superior or seek approval. Let me see past what might be called failings, achievement or status...so that I may know many hearts and love unconditionally.”
― Joy Ross, EARTH ANGELS – Edition #1: 13 Journeys of Triumph - Wisdom with Wings

“Palaces are fancy toys built by people with inferiority complex in an effort to be superior to others!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“A happy person compares only with self. He tries to be a better person than what he had been yesterday. He tries to help everyone to become better than what they are rather than pulling them down to satisfy his own sense of misplaced superiority. He has no desire of making others miserable by berating them and destroying their happiness.”
― Awdhesh Singh, 31 Ways to Happiness

“For the first time then I recognized that supremacy in our society came from one’s proximity to gold, not from mere excellence - 'If you come with me, what do you bring? If I come to you, what can you give me?”
― Mukta Singh-Zocchi, Game of Big Numbers

“Whatever you're thinking, is being thought or had already been thought somewhere else. What makes the difference is in your way of presenting it.”
― Junaid Raza

“Every time we think we notice another person's mistake we can delude ourselves that we are superior to them, but it is only when we notice our own mistake that we can be sure that we are surpassing ourselves.”
― Luigina Sgarro

“An amateur should be more willing to be impressed by the professional than eager to impress the professional.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“...the function of life is to bring about "not the betterment of the majority, who, taken as individuals, are the most worthless types," but "the creation of genius," the development and elevation of superior personalities.”
― Will Durant, A Burlesque Autobiography

“Superiority commits to protect those inferior. #VincentMarcHoherz.<3”
― Vincent Marc Hoherz, Forever shall we be, eternally.

“Thanks to racism, some of the people who often kiss animals are disgusted by even the mere thought of them touching some people.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“He felt both superior to his classmates and jealous of their relationships.”
― Eli Saslow, Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist

“Is there really a particular state, chaotic and wild, whereat the world stands stable? Is it gospel that no matter how much effort we humans may exert upon it to tame it, to drag it to another state of equilibrium where we feel superior to other animals, it’s ultimately going to hark back to the natural state of equilibrium, chaos that is?”
― Anurag Shrivastava, The Web of Karma

“Annabelle and I ate mussels on the back deck and drank beers until we were toasted. Laughed our asses off remembering these people in our classes and those stupid parties where literary people try so hard to be literary people. Cool superiority as a mask for overflowing insecurity. 'Every time I see people in social circumstances like that, I can't help but imagine them in junior high, worrying about who they're going to eat lunch with,' Annabelle had said, and I always thought about that later. You see a person's inner thirteen-year-old and you won't look at them the same way again.”
― Deb Caletti, Stay

“One who lets others believe is always superior to one who believes, or makes others believe.”
― Jean Baudrillard, The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena

“For whatever reason, you wil tend to think people who disagree with you are disagreeing because they are not as good as you.”
― Caliban Darklock, The BULL SHIT LIFE: Why Everything Sucks