Inferiority Quotes

I believe that there's no improvement if you have an inferiority complex and victim mentality.

Envy is a declaration of inferiority.

The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation.

I have an inferiority complex, but it’s not a very good one.

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.

The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.

I would rather have an inferiority complex and be pleasantly surprised, than have a superiority complex and be rudely awakened.

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.

Remember, 20 percent of women have inferiority complexes, 70 percent have illusions.

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.

I'm an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

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.

Racism is the dogma that one ethnic group is condemned by nature to congenital inferiority and another group is destined to congenital superiority.

I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.

A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else.

Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.

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.

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.

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.

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.

Baloney is just salami with an inferiority complex.

The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority.

One often has need of one inferior to himself.

The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one's own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.

Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.

Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Whether our reformers admit it or not, the economic and social inferiority of women is responsible for prostitution.

People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority.

All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes.

I come from an overly confident place. But I'm overconfident because of feelings of inferiority.

Conceit is an outward manifestation of inferiority.

The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.

Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

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.

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.

When an individual (or a group of individuals) is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he is inferior.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

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.

We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.

For cultural invasion to succeed, it is essential that those invaded become convinced of their intrinsic inferiority.