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All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.


Peter Singer


#equals #fact #hard #man #our

The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.


James F. Cooper


#child #citizen #controlling #existence #government

My father used to say superior people never make long visits.


Marianne Moore


#long #make #never #people #say

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.


Ashley Montagu


#biological #fact #natural #reality #socially

Harriet was silent. She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamoured, but he had not so far produced in her that crushing sense of utter inferiority which leads to prostration and hero-worship. But she now realised that there was, after all, something god-like about him. He could control a horse.


Dorothy L. Sayers


#hero-worship #horses #love #riding #superiority

Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.


Thucydides


#cheated #compelled #equal #excited #first

Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.


Pete Townshend


#being #brilliant #british #class #culturally

Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.


Giorgio Vasari


#beautiful #creation #divine #first #god

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.


Elijah Wood


#fellow #fellow men #former #lies #men

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.


Frank Lloyd Wright


#comfort #expressed #finer #organic #seeks






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