Quotes of Inferiority - somelinesforyou

“ The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment, and in the uninterrupted struggle both of individuals and humanity. ”

- Alfred Adler

“ An inferiority complex would be a blessing, if only the right people had it.'. ”

- Alan Reed

“ Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority. ”

- Alfred Adler

“ Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends. ”

- Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

“ Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority. ”

- Jose Ortega y Gasset

“ The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation. ”

- Alfred Adler

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

- John C. Calhoun

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

- Alfred Adler

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

- Simone De Beauvoir

“ The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history. ”

- Humphrey Bogart

“ He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him. ”

- Milan Kundera

“ If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible. ”

- Chuck Palahniuk

“ The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be. ”

- Abba Eban

“ Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends. ”

- Lord Chesterfield

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

- Henry Brooks Adams

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

- Simone De Beauvoir

“ One often has need of one inferior to himself. ”

- Jean de La Fontaine

“ Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film. ”

- Alfred Hitchcock

“ For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable. ”

- Gloria Steinem

“ Talk to them about things they don't know. Try to give them an inferiority complex. If the actress is beautiful, screw her. If she isn't, present her with a valuable painting she will not understand. If they insist on being boring, kick their asses or twist their noses… ”

- John Huston

“ Most people enjoy the inferiority of their friends. ”

- Lord Chesterfield

“ One who does not realize his own value is condemned to utter failure. ”

- Imam Ali

“ 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. ”

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Cesare Pavese

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

- B.C. Forbes

“ Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends. ”

- Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

“ People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority. ”

- Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

“ Stripped of all their masquerades, the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness, rejection, inferiority, unmanageable anger, illness and death. ”

- Joshua Loth Liebman

“ The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot. ”

- Mark Twain
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