Famous quotes containing the word superiority:
“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)
“Fashion understands itself; good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever country readily fraternize with those of every other. The chiefs of savage tribes have distinguished themselves in London and Paris, by the purity of their tournure.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Obscurantism is the academic theorists revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscuritya way of proclaiming ones superiority in the face of ones diminished influence.”
—David Lehman (b. 1948)