Superiority

Famous quotes containing the word superiority:

    “Whoever gives advice to the sick gains a sense of superiority over them, no matter whether his advice is accepted or rejected. That is why sick people who are sensitive and proud hate their advisors even more than their illnesses.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “It is indeed typical that you Earth people refuse to believe in the superiority of any world but your own. Children looking into a magnifying glass, imagining the image you see is the image of your true size.”
    —Franklin Coen. Joseph Newman. The Monitor (Douglas Spencer)

    “Assumptions of male superiority are as widespread and deep rooted and every bit as crippling to the woman as the assumptions of white supremacy are to the Negro.... this is no more a man’s world than it is a white world.”
    —Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, African American civil rights organization. SNCC Position Paper (Women in the Movement)