Superiority

Famous quotes containing the word superiority:

    Obscurantism is the academic theorist’s revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity—a way of proclaiming one’s superiority in the face of one’s diminished influence.
    David Lehman (b. 1948)

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

    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)