Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

All sensible Army people turned gas warfare down as being utterly insane since, in view of your superiority in the air, it would not be long before it would bring the most terrible catastrophe upon German cities, which were completely unprotected.

What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.

Technology is going to revolutionize almost every sector, leading to the demise of many traditional professions. Economic and political power will be determined less by a country's size than by its technological superiority.

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

There is a lot of learned material written about nationalism - scholarly books and papers, histories of it, theories of it - but most of us understand that nationalism, at its heart, at its very deepest roots, is about a feeling of superiority: We are better than you. Our country is better than your country.

A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do something more than they do, whereby his superiority may be apparent.

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

We are wrong to fear superiority of mind and soul; this superiority is very moral, for understanding everything makes a person tolerant and the capacity to feel deeply inspires great goodness.

The suggestion that Jews were selected from among all nations of the earth to be God's chosen people suggested a kind of group arrogance, especially when the good news was first reported by Jews. However, the choice was interpreted not as tribute to superior virtue but as divine challenge.

we parted each feeling superior to the other and is not that feeling after all one of the great desiderata of social intercourse.

The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.

Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.

To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate.

Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant.

What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.

He who ascends to mountain tops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below.