Superiority Quotes

Fifteen referees. I want fifteen referees to be at this fight because there ain't no one man who can keep up with the pace I'm gonna set except me. There's not a man alive who can whup me. I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty. I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked.

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.

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.

It is a curious fact that of all the illusions that beset mankind none is quite so curious as that tendency to suppose that we are mentally and morally superior to those who differ from us in opinion.

The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds in support of this theory.

My face is so pretty, you don’t see a scar, which proves I’m the king of the ring by far.

I'm the fastest thing on two feet.

Ahimsa can be practiced only towards those that are inferior to you in every way.

Whoever gives advice to the sick gains a sense of superiority over them, no matter whether his advice is accepted or rejected. That is why sick people who are sensitive and proud hate their advisors even more than their illnesses.

Beauty is a natural superiority.

I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.

When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.

When some one boasted that at the Pythian games he had vanquished men, Diogenes replied, "Nay, I defeat men, you defeat slaves."

Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.

Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.

Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority; perfect equality affords no temptation.

All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.

Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than, and superior to, brute force.

I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

I have discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds.

Through being "right", you feel superior and through feeling superior you strengthen your sense of self. In reality, of course, you are only strengthening the illusion of ego.

There still shines the most important nuance by virtue of which the noble felt themselves to be men of a higher rank. They designate themselves simply by their superiority in power (as "the powerful," "the masters," "the commanders") or by the most clearly visible signs of this superiority, for example, as "the rich," "the possessors" (this is the meaning of 'Arya,' and of corresponding words in Iranian and Slavic).

Those who show pity and are always ready to help during times of trouble are seldom the same ones who rejoice in our joy: when others are happy they have nothing to do, they become superfluous and lose their feeling of superiority, and so they easily show their displeasure.

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.

I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.

Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.