inferiority

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
2a21a3d	The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.	inferiority politics rule	Plato
dcc3507	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.	inferiority shyness social-anxiety	Daphne du Maurier
2428b8f	"No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne." "I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is more than worthy of you." She stood on the hearth; she was pale as the white marble slab and cornice behind her; her eyes flashed large, dilated, unsmiling. "And ask in what sense that young man is worthy of ?"	courtship dignity empowerment equality feminism gender independence inferiority integrity marriage marriage-proposal matrimony men self-awareness self-determination social-norms suitability women wooing worthiness	Charlotte Brontë
5d5961d	There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that must accept . The terrible thing, old buddy, is that must accept And I mean that very seriously. You must accept them and accept them with love. For these innocent people have no other hope. They are, in effect, still trapped in a history which they do not understand; and until they understand it, they cannot be released from it. They have had to believe for many years, and for innumerable reasons, that black men are inferior to white men. Many of them, indeed, know better, but, as you will discover, people find it very difficult to act on what they know.	african-americans inferiority race-relations racism superiority white-people	James Baldwin
0de7791	No one can tell the difference between a clone and a human. That's because there isn't any difference. The idea of clones being inferior is a filthy lie.	humanity inferiority lies	Nancy Farmer
eecd89c	And wasn't it this bright boy you selected for beating and tortures after hours? Of course it was. We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for their are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against. So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind. Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man? Me? I won't stomach them for a minute. And so when houses were finally fireproofed completely, all over the world (you were correct in your assumption the other night) there was no longer need of firemen for the old purposes. They were given the new job, as custodians of our peace of mind, the focus of our understandable and rightful dread of being inferior: official censors, judges and executors. That's you, Montag, and that's me.	equality fahrenheit-451 fear happiness inferiority peace ray-bradbury	Ray Bradbury
5cd2415	[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.	husbands inequality inferiority marriage matrimony perception wives	Wallace Stegner
c9d3629	It is only the people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things.	inferiority inferiority-complex	T.H. White
1d04a95	We are always ready to look down on people: it is an abiding pleasure, a poultice for our own sore sense of inferiority.	inferiority	Anthony Burgess
f319a87	The details and symbols of your life have been deliberately constructed to make you believe what white people say about you. 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 and fear.	beliefs bigotry fear inferiority life race-relations racism superiority white-people	James Baldwin
6cbe1e8	Comparing how you feel on the inside (bad) to the way someone else looks on the outside (great) is a losing proposition. It's an impossible standard.	inferiority inferiority-complex inspiration inspirational lessons	Maria Shriver
e82208d	I felt so ashamed with them because everything in their life was going so well and they were so sort of successful. I couldn't talk about what I wanted with them and they were always in a hurry.	inferiority iris-murdoch jealous not-wanted out-of-place outsider shame the-black-prince unspoken	Iris Murdoch

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

dcc3507

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.

inferiority shyness social-anxiety

Daphne du Maurier

2428b8f

"No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne." "I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is more than worthy of you." She stood on the hearth; she was pale as the white marble slab and cornice behind her; her eyes flashed large, dilated, unsmiling. "And ask in what sense that young man is worthy of ?"

courtship dignity empowerment equality feminism gender independence inferiority integrity marriage marriage-proposal matrimony men self-awareness self-determination social-norms suitability women wooing worthiness

Charlotte Brontë

5d5961d

There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that must accept . The terrible thing, old buddy, is that must accept And I mean that very seriously. You must accept them and accept them with love. For these innocent people have no other hope. They are, in effect, still trapped in a history which they do not understand; and until they understand it, they cannot be released from it. They have had to believe for many years, and for innumerable reasons, that black men are inferior to white men. Many of them, indeed, know better, but, as you will discover, people find it very difficult to act on what they know.

african-americans inferiority race-relations racism superiority white-people

James Baldwin

0de7791

No one can tell the difference between a clone and a human. That's because there isn't any difference. The idea of clones being inferior is a filthy lie.

humanity inferiority lies

Nancy Farmer

eecd89c

And wasn't it this bright boy you selected for beating and tortures after hours? Of course it was. We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for their are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against. So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind. Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man? Me? I won't stomach them for a minute. And so when houses were finally fireproofed completely, all over the world (you were correct in your assumption the other night) there was no longer need of firemen for the old purposes. They were given the new job, as custodians of our peace of mind, the focus of our understandable and rightful dread of being inferior: official censors, judges and executors. That's you, Montag, and that's me.

equality fahrenheit-451 fear happiness inferiority peace ray-bradbury

Ray Bradbury

5cd2415

[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.

husbands inequality inferiority marriage matrimony perception wives

Wallace Stegner

c9d3629

It is only the people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things.

inferiority inferiority-complex

T.H. White

1d04a95

We are always ready to look down on people: it is an abiding pleasure, a poultice for our own sore sense of inferiority.

inferiority

Anthony Burgess

f319a87

The details and symbols of your life have been deliberately constructed to make you believe what white people say about you. 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 and fear.

beliefs bigotry fear inferiority life race-relations racism superiority white-people

James Baldwin

6cbe1e8

Comparing how you feel on the inside (bad) to the way someone else looks on the outside (great) is a losing proposition. It's an impossible standard.

inferiority inferiority-complex inspiration inspirational lessons

Maria Shriver

e82208d

I felt so ashamed with them because everything in their life was going so well and they were so sort of successful. I couldn't talk about what I wanted with them and they were always in a hurry.

inferiority iris-murdoch jealous not-wanted out-of-place outsider shame the-black-prince unspoken

Iris Murdoch