(224 quotes found)
“That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.”
Albert Einstein
“One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.”
Pauline Kael
“A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.”
Graham Greene
“Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap”
Jacques Barzun
“Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man’s superiority to all that befalls him.”
Romain Gary
“Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.”
William Osler
“Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect and I don't live to be. But, before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean.”
Bob Marley
“White people in this country are tweaked. We are raised to believe a myth of White superiority. Malcolm X, in The Autobiography of Malcolm X, said that White people's "belief that they are 'superior' in some way is so deeply rooted that these things are in the national White subconscious.”
Jane Elliott
“Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.”
Walter Lang
“If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.”
Alexander Smith
