Inferiority Quotations

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

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

All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes.

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

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.

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Politicians are nauseating by definition... They can produce nothing, neither a loaf of bread nor a table nor a picture; and this inability to create value, this total inferiority, makes them jealous, vengeful, insolent and a menace to life and limb.

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

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

When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.

One often has need of one, inferior to himself.

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

When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn’t go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn’t train. Then it gets tiring. And you do get bored of it.

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

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

It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.

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

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection.

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

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.

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

The moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopeless sense of inferiority, must be conquered now and thrust aside. If I failed now I should fail forever.

The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate.

The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our 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.

A fascinating mystery of nature is manifested in the universal fact of hunting: the inexorable hierarchy among living beings. Every animal is in a relationship of superiority or inferiority with regard to every other. Strict equality is exceedingly improbable and anomalous.

Although the Senate is much given to admiring in its members a superiority less obvious or quite invisible to outsiders, one Senator seldom proclaims his own inferiority to another, and still more seldom likes to be told of it.

Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

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

No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival.

I'm an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.

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

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

We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority.

A man looking at a hippopotamus may sometimes be tempted to regard a hippopotamus as an enormous mistake; but he is also bound to confess that a fortunate inferiority prevents him personally from making such mistakes.

When we have anger in us, we suffer. When we have discrimination in us, we suffer. When we have the complex of superiority, we suffer. When we have the complex of inferiority, we suffer also. So when we are capable of transforming these negative things in us, we are free and happiness is possible.

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

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.

Conceit is an outward manifestation of inferiority.

People hate who makes you feel one's inferiority.

Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.

People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority.

Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority.

Nowhere is woman treated according to the merit of her work, but rather as a sex. It is therefore almost inevitable that she should pay for her right to exist, to keep a position in whatever line, with sex favors. Thus it is merely a question of degree whether she sells herself to one man, in or out of marriage, or to many men!... The economic and social inferiority of woman is responsible for prostitution.

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

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

Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.

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

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

One who has an inferiority complex can never be really humble, but can only have false modesty or false humility.

The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.

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

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

Wherever an inferiority complex exists, there is a good reason for it.

The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack.

It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own sex, because she has points of inferiority.

If I could only fancy myself clever, it would be better, but to be a failure of Nature and to know it is not a comfortable lot. It is the last lesson one learns, to be contented with one's inferiority -- but it must be learned.

The inferiority of women is man-made.

Baloney is just salami with an inferiority complex.

Envy is a declaration of inferiority.

Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity

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.

...and see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky...

Hatred is public demonstration of inferiority complex.

The entire vitality of art depends upon its being either full of truth, or full of use; and that, however pleasant, wonderful, or impressive it may be in itself, it must yet be of inferior kind, and tend to deeper inferiority, unless it has clearly one of these main objects, either to state a true thing, or to adorn a serviceable one.

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

I do not like the word tolerance, but could not think of a better one. Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one

God will cease to be God, if he brought into being a single person with the hall-mark of inferiority.

Quotation confesses inferiority.

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

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.

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

We all have a lifelong habit of inferiority to our full self..."