#infer

So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I've told the story often about how that inspired me later in life to get involved in other things, because I couldn't out-do my brothers in sports, and it's a very competitive relationship. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#because #brothers #competitive #complex #developed

The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society; any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional. ↗

— Ted Olson

#basic #equals #idea #inferior #marriage

I must quit marrying men who feel inferior to me. Somewhere there must be a man who could be my husband and not feel inferior. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#could #feel #husband #i #inferior

I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#inferior #look #scotland #sort #switzerland

I’ve always had a terrible weakness for beautiful but sad things. ↗

— Sylvain Reynard

#sylvain-reynard #beauty

Change is not always accomplished peacefully, but that does not make it disadventageous. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-prince #infernal-devices #poilitics #change

He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#inferiority-complex #education

The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#inferiority #equality

Envy suggests inferiority. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#inferiority #jealousy #jealousy

We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the call to greatness. We regard an interest in glory or perfection as a sign of mental unhealthiness, and have decided that high achievers, who are called overachievers, owe their surplus ambition to a defect in mothering (either too little or too much). We want to admire but think we have a right not to be intimidated. We dislike feeling inferior to an ideal. So away with ideals, with essences. The only ideals allowed are healthy ones -- those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#ambition #democracy #egalitarianism #equality #essence