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the Week of Proper 4 / Ordinary 9
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Quotations regarding 'Superiority'

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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.
Adam Smith, Scottish Economist (1723-1790)
If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.
Alexander Smith, Scottish Poet (1830-1867)
It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.
James Smithson, British Scientist
My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people.
John Philip Sousa, American Musician (1854-1932)
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.
Albert Speer, German Architect (1905-1981)
It should seem, then, that the nature of society dictates another, a higher branch, whose superiority arises from its being the interested and natural conservator of the universal interest.
Ezra Stiles, American Clergyman (1727-1795)
The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.
Kim Il Sung, North Korean Statesman (1912-1994)
What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers.
Flora Tristan, -
Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.
George Washington, American President (1732-1799)
Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.
Mary Wollstonecraft, British Writer (1759-1797)
The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.
Carter G. Woodson, American Historian (1875-1950)
Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.
Kim Il sung, -
 
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