Gary Zukav

We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority.

American Author

George J. Mitchell

So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I've told the story often about how that inspired me later in life to get involved in other things, because I couldn't out-do my brothers in sports, and it's a very competitive relationship.

American Politician

Rajpal Yadav

I personally don't identify with the character of a man who suffers inferiority complex due to a difference in height with his wife. I am a very confident person in real life and have no such hang-ups.

Indian Actor

Gloria Steinem

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.

American Activist

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

American Leader

Henri Bergson

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.

French Philosopher

Angelina Grimke

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.

John C. Calhoun

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

American Statesman

Cesare Pavese

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

Italian Poet

Sun Tzu

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.

Chinese Philosopher

Often used to describe negative feelings about oneself in psychology.

Psychological Term

'Inferiority' suggests a deep, emotional struggle and may have a negative impact on self-esteem.

Emotional Weight

When paired with 'complex', it refers to a consistent and pervasive sense of inadequacy.

Complex Nuance

Refers to rank or status in hierarchical structures, like jobs or social classes.

Social Hierarchies

Used when comparing things or people, implying one is less than the other.

Comparative Context

Can be factual without negative connotation, such as in technical descriptions or analyses.

Not Always Negative

 were never really happy but they suffer from a big inferiority complex I think I was have to show people how angry they are fresh around and make a big noise wow look at deep that elephant's gone how awesome is that Wow rivers a lot deeper in that particular point then I gave it credit for must be honest with

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 you hear these stories and they keep repeating themselves, over and over and over? Wouldn't you be haunted? That's my case. And at the same time, you know, as my people are dying, my culture is also dying. There, I said it. Because, you know, we have this culture inferiority,

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 and when women themselves believe in their inferiority, and they even fight those who try to question these rules. So for me, it wasn't only about these attacks I had to face. It was about living two totally different perceptions of my personality, of my person --

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 But I should say a few words about what's going on. I think I'm looking and talking about the psychosocial effects of inequality. More to do with feelings of superiority and inferiority, of being valued and devalued, respected and disrespected.

How economic inequality...

 a few words about what's going on I think I'm looking and talking about the psychosocial effects of inequality more to do with feelings of superiority and inferiority of being valued and devalued respected and disrespected and of course

 that black people are intellectually, biologically and immutably inferior to white people. And -- and I think this is the most important part -- that that inferiority means that the injustice we suffer and inequality we endure

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 that came through foreign intervention created even worse circumstances for the people and even the sense of paralysis and inferiority in that part of the world for decades we have lived under authoritarian

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 to kidnap and enslave African people. So it was suddenly really helpful to have a story about the inferiority of African people to justify this new trade to other people, to the church, to themselves.

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 increase the social distances and those feelings of superiority and inferiority, and that makes a big difference to social relationships within society. Status and class become more important.

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 went before because people will will no longer have a sense of inferiority complex or be plagued by the anxiety that we are plagued today because we are constantly looking for

Inferiority

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