Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
If a man in order to shoot a hare, were to discharge thousands of guns on a great moor in all possible directions; if in order to get into a locked room, he were to buy ten thousand casual keys, and try them all; if, in order to have a house, he were to build a town, and leave all the other houses to wind and weather - assuredly no one would call such proceedings purposeful and still less would anyone conjecture behind these proceedings a higher wisdom, unrevealed reasons, and superior prudence.
It's always surprising to be reminded that while you're watching and thinking about people, all knowing and superior, they're watching and thinking about you, right back at you.
The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.
Thus the State never intentionally confronts a man's sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit or honesty, but with superior physical strength. I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion.
The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition.
Be obedient to your superior, and your inferior will obey you.
Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.
How infinitely superior to our physical senses are those of the mind!
Oh, how superior is the Eye of Horus to the Mouth of Isis!
To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!
There is no one who is without faults, and who is not in some way a burden to others, whether he is a superior or a subject, an old man or a young one, a scholar or a dunce.
For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. And this is said in disparagement, whereas it is one of the greatest talents the species has and one that has made it superior to animals that are satisfied with what they have.
[People] want to feel superior, so they imagine we're Bible thumpers and uneducated and all that.
True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either.
Genius is only a superior power of seeing.
Demographics need not be destiny. The waning West became what it is not by out-breeding the undeveloped world. We were once great not because of huge numbers, but due to human capital people of superior ideas and abilities, capable of innovation, exploration, science, philosophy.
In a free government the demand for moral qualities should be made superior to that of talents.