Superiority

Famous quotes containing the word superiority:

“There is something in us, somehow, that, in the most degraded condition, we snatch at a chance to deceive ourselves into a fancied superiority to others, whom we suppose lower in the scale than ourselves.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)

“Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)