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I believe that there's no improvement if you have an inferiority complex and victim mentality.
Kim Nam-joon
I am of the opinion that having a lack of self-esteem and seeing oneself as powerless does not lead to progress.
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The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation.
Frantz Fanon
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I have an inferiority complex, but it’s not a very good one.
Steven Wright
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One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.
Alvin Ailey
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The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.
Don Shula
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I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.
Peter Matthiessen
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I would rather have an inferiority complex and be pleasantly surprised, than have a superiority complex and be rudely awakened.
Vanna Bonta
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The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.
Carter G. Woodson
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Remember, 20 percent of women have inferiority complexes, 70 percent have illusions.
Elsa Schiaparelli
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Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.
Angelina Grimke
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I'm an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
Eric Clapton
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We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
Alfred Adler
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It is quite possible that future generations will look upon arguments about the inferiority of the socialist plan as we look upon Adam Smith's argument about joint stock companies which, also, were simply false.
Joseph A. Schumpeter
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Racism is the dogma that one ethnic group is condemned by nature to congenital inferiority and another group is destined to congenital superiority.
Ruth Benedict
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I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.
Barry Gibb
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A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else.
John B. Keane
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I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness ... Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.
Jane Austen
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Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.
Alexander Crummell
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Never abandon the possibility of attack. Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy's plans. This often results in improving one's own position.
Adolf Galland
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Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong.
H. L. Mencken
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Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.
Simone de Beauvoir
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A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.
Samuel Johnson
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You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.
William Gilbert
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The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority
Yukio Mishima
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
Cesare Pavese
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Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority.
Emily Post
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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
Ezra Pound
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one's own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
B. C. Forbes
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Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.
Carter G. Woodson
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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.
John C. Calhoun
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Whether our reformers admit it or not, the economic and social inferiority of women is responsible for prostitution.
Emma Goldman
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As one might expect in a society with mass communications and mass markets, the pseudo-ethic says that whatever is popular, is right. Where the traditional ethic derives its sanction from the superiority of a few, the pseudo-ethic derives its sanction from the inferiority of a great many. The pseudo-ethic is keyed, not to the spiritually gifted, but to the spiritually ungifted.
Margaret Halsey
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All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes.
Lionel Richie
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I come from an overly confident place. But I'm overconfident because of feelings of inferiority.
Bette Midler
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Conceit is an outward manifestation of inferiority.
Noel Coward
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
Honore de Balzac
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Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.
Philip Wylie
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Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice does not reason, or it would not be prejudice... If prejudice could reason, it would dispel itself.
William Pickens
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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
Pliny the Elder
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Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected.
Marilyn French
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When an individual (or a group of individuals) is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he is inferior.
Simone de Beauvoir
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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
Henry Adams
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One of the marked superiorities the English enjoy over other peoples is their ability to imbue the foreigner with a crippling inferiority complex the moment he sets foot on British soil.
Pierre Daninos