#superior

You can build the Empire State Building. Train the Prussian army. Elevate the hierarchy of a totalitarian state higher than the throne of the Most High. But there are still people whose moral superiority defeats your own. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#moral-superiority #morality #totalitarianism

We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background. ↗

— M. H. Abrams

#audible #background #codes #communications #environment

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#belief #fortifies #friend #nothing #one friend

A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul. ↗

— Russell Baker

#earth #feel #history #like #makes

I nominate this song as the "Song for the group" (from the Benefit CD): Chorus from the song "Inside" by Jethro Tull for it's positive mention of "joe": I'm sittin' in the corner feelin' glad, got no money comin' in but I can't be sad, That was the best cuppa coffee I ever had, And I won't worry about a thing because we got it made, here on the Inside outside's so far away. ↗

— Jethro Tull

#money

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing. ↗

— Josh Billings

#evidence #greater #nothing #superior #surprised

I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know. ↗

— Derek Bok

#asserted #attitude #done #embarrassment #graduates

The American advertiser has made the superior American magazine of today possible. ↗

— Edward Bok

#american #made #magazine #possible #superior

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#books #chiefly #enjoy #give #great

Being six feet off the ground does give one a sense of superiority. ↗

— Megan Whalen Turner

#superiority #humor