Isabelle Adjani

I took the test for AIDS. I began to hate people who were not sick. Those people are monsters, I would think, believing that they are well because of moral superiority, because they are good. I identified with the loneliness of the sick. I felt that there was something pure about them.

French Actress

Jules Verne

So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.

French Author

Sebastian Pinera

Countries with deficit don't want to pay the bill, and they want to get more loans, and countries with superiority, they don't want to help the countries with problems, and they just want them to tighten their belts.

Chilean Statesman

Simone de Beauvoir

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.

French Writer

John C. Maxwell

There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.

American Clergyman

Georg C. Lichtenberg

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.

German Scientist

Samuel Butler

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

British Poet

James Murphy

My personality is based on an anonymity and failure. Failure and anonymity, those are my strengths - superiority from below.

American Musician

Jeanette Winterson

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.

British Novelist

Lawrence G. Lovasik

A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.

Use 'superiority' when comparing skills, abilities, or achievements, often in sports or academics.

Performance Comparison

'Superiority' implies a clear, often measurable advantage, not just a personal opinion.

Objective Measure

'Superiority' in social contexts can imply arrogance, and may be perceived negatively.

Perceived Attitude

Don't confuse confidence with 'superiority'; the latter suggests excessive self-importance.

Confusing Confidence

Use 'superiority' to highlight differences in rank or status, especially in formal or hierarchical settings.

Rank and Status

Acknowledging someone's 'superiority' might be necessary in cultures that value rigid social or organizational hierarchies.

Respect for Hierarchy

'Superiority' in technical contexts emphasizes a product's or method's superior quality or efficacy.

Technical Quality

When a new technology arrives, talk about its 'superiority' to highlight its advancements over the old.

Innovative Edge

 when these machines perform tasks differently to human beings, there's no reason to think that what human beings are currently capable of doing represents any sort of summit in what these machines might be capable of doing in the future. Now the third myth, what I call the superiority myth. It's often said that those who forget

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 but there's one I can teach you that's very dangerous and it's easy to learn, and that's the expression of contempt. Now with anger, you've got two people on an even playing field. It's still somewhat of a healthy relationship. But when anger turns to contempt, you've been dismissed. It's associated with moral superiority.

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 does not offend by superiority but then we hit the twentieth century and we entered a new culture that historians call the culture of personality you know what happened is we had evolved from an agricultural economy to a world of big business and so suddenly people are moving from small towns to the cities

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 This effect explains why more than 100 studies have shown that people display illusory superiority. We judge ourselves as better than others to a degree that violates the laws of math. When software engineers at two companies were asked to rate their performance,

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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.

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 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

 which has held this country together. The great disadvantage of it is that the Han have a very weak conception of cultural difference. They really believe in their own superiority, and they are disrespectful of those who are not.

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 gassed in the chamber he enjoyed murdering people in hard time he was a passionate believer in Hitler's theories of race and the superiority of the Aryans he doesn't start off I don't think as a bad man and he becomes one

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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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 and discrimination that was justified by race. By the supposed superiority of white people and the supposed inferiority of Black people. The apartheid regime said it was nature