Superiority Complex Quotes

“I know what cancer was. How is it like humankind?"

Sek Hardeen's perfectly modulated, softly accented tones showed a hint of agitation. "We have spread out through the galaxy like cancer cells through a living body, Duré. We multiply without thought to the countless life forms that must die or be pushed aside so that we may breed and flourish. We eradicate competing forms of intelligent life.”
― Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion

“Everyone loses their class when they travel through hell, but only a few will regain it if they remain humble and accept the part they played in their own misery.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Noa stared at her. She would always believe that he was someone else, that he wasn't himself but some fanciful idea of a foreign person; she would always feel like she was someone special because she had condescended to be with someone everyone else hated. His presence would prove to the world that she was a good person, an educated person, a liberal person. Noa didn't care about being Korean when he was with her; in fact, he didn't care about being Korean or Japanese with anyone. He wanted to be just himself, whatever that meant; he wanted to forget himself sometimes. But that wasn't possible. It would never be possible with her.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“Man of an hard heart! Hear me, Proud, Stern, and Cruel! You could have saved me; you could have restored me to happiness and virtue, but would not! You are the destroyer of my Soul; You are my Murderer, and on you fall the curse of my death and my unborn Infant’s! Insolent in your yet-unshaken virtue, you disdained the prayers of a Penitent; But God will show mercy, though you show none. And where is the merit of your boasted virtue? What temptations have you vanquished? Coward! you have fled from it, not opposed seduction. But the day of Trial will arrive! Oh! then when you yield to impetuous passions! when you feel that Man is weak, and born to err; When shuddering you look back upon your crimes, and solicit with terror the mercy of your God, Oh! in that fearful moment think upon me! Think upon your Cruelty! Think upon Agnes, and despair of pardon!”
― Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Monk

“One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“I am smiling a big adopted-orphan smile as I write this ... I still love scribbling the word - WRITER - any time on a form, questionnaire, document asks for my occupation. Fine, I write personality quizzes, I don't write about the Great Issues of the Day, but I think it's fair to say I am a writer ... ('Adopted-orphan smile', I mean, that's not bad, come on.)”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“This week, Zuma was quoted as saying, 'When the British came to our country, they said everything we are doing was barbaric, was wrong, inferior in whatever way.' But the serious critique of Zuma is not about who is a barbarian and who is civilised. It is about good governance, and this is a universal value, as relevant to an African village as it is to Westminster. If you are unable to keep your appetites in check, you are inevitably going to live beyond your means. And this means you are going to become vulnerable to patronage and even corruption. That is why Jacob Zuma's 'polygamy' is his achilles heel.”
― Mark Gevisser

“I think, more than anything, people like to feel superior to others. Canadians like to feel that they’re better than Americans. Americans love to feel they’re better than the whole world. And when people feel superior, it makes it harder for them to see the problems just beneath the surface. They don’t want to believe them, to face them, because if they did, can they really claim to be superior anymore?”
― Rebecca Schaeffer, Only Ashes Remain

“Whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that's the ego in you.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“Continuously feeling superior is a characteristic of immaturity.”
― Eraldo Banovac

“We were all in it together, of course, desperate to regain some hypothetical upper hand by any means necessary.”
― Peter Watts, Blindsight

“Yes, there is a conspiracy, indeed there are a great number of conspiracies, all tripping each other up... The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theories is that conspiracy theorists actually believe in the conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is chaotic. The truth is, that it is not the Jewish banking conspiracy, or the grey aliens, or the twelve-foot reptiloids from another dimension that are in control, the truth is far more frightening; no-one is in control, the world is rudderless.”
― Alan Moore

“What are narcissists looking for, after all? Just someone at their level that they can feel superior to.”
― Luigina Sgarro

“I do not care a fig for any woman that knows even what an author means.”
― William Hazlitt

“So the paradox goes: No man who is really ignorant is ever aware that he is ignorant. That is its finest, most faulty manifestation; there can be no true ignorance without first some claim of intelligence or consciousness, or superiority or enlightenment.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“Superiority complex does not mean "pride" although it appears to be so in the eyes of those who want to see it so. When you feel a higher esteem over the obstacles you desire to surmount, you highly overcome them and can still count a reserved energy to spare!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“I belong to that small group of chosen people, who because of their superior knowledge and talents are far above ordinary human rules and limitations. We have advanced beyond such conventional notions as ‘good' and ‘bad'.”
― Robert van Gulik, The Haunted Monastery

“We tempt others to look down on us by telling them that we look up to them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“When it comes to things such as sugar and rice, most people believe that brown is superior to white. But when it comes to human beings, they believe that the opposite is true.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“You have now learned the valuable lesson, Dee, that law and custom are only there for the common people; they don't apply to exalted persons like me.”
― Robert van Gulik, The Haunted Monastery

“It was anger that had gone underground and mixed itself with all kinds of other emotions. To judge from its odd effects, it was anger disguised and complex, not anger simple and open.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“Fifty year old wealthy man resents twenty five year old middle class man, without recalling that 25 years back even he was a poor man.”
― Amit Kalantri

“It understood the crisis as a rebuke from Allah
because Muslims had not followed His way. Just as success is a validation of faith, failure is a personal rebuke. Did not Allah promise, “You shall be uppermost if you are believers” (3:139)? The corollary to this must be that, if you are not uppermost, you must not be believers.”
― Robert R. Reilly, The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist

“Thanks to racism, some of the people who often kiss animals are disgusted by even the mere thought of them touching some people.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I was accused of always acting superior. Always means being, not acting.”
― Brian Spellman, We have our difference in common 2.

“No one can make you feel superior without your conceit.”
― Brian Spellman, We have our difference in common 2.

“Being humble is nothing to brag about, believe me.”
― Brian Spellman, We have our difference in common 2.

“Al detenerme extendía la mano y hacía un saludo en paso de minué. Siempre esperaba una propina sorprendente, y sabía inclinar la cabeza con respeto y desprecio. No importaba que ellos no sospecharan todo lo superior que era yo.”
― Felisberto Hernández, Cuentos reunidos

“Calling people stupid with no real solution of your own is a fool's reach for superiority.”
― Criss Jami

“The belief that you know more than everyone else is a recipe for mediocrity.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman