#inferior

One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody. ↗

— Alvin Ailey

#break #constantly #down #i #i am

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

If one race be inferior to the other socially, the Constitution of the United States cannot put them upon the same plane. ↗

— Henry Billings Brown

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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you. ↗

— Irving Layton

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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

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends. ↗

— Philip Stanhope

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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

In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same. ↗

— Eckhart Tolle

#inferiority #self-esteem #superiority #truth #truth-telling