#superior

Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall. ↗

— Paul Harris

#any #been #comes #fall #history

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#assume #boasting #egotism #form #intolerance

The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#admit #concern #does #first #himself

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#extraordinary #mankind #must #pretensions #race

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. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#civilisation #colony #disprove #dumping #either

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it. ↗

— George Byron

#any #confirms #day #every #every day

I've witnessed thousands of superior athletes try to becomes hitters and fail at it. ↗

— Willie Stargell

#becomes #fail #hitters #i #superior

Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior. ↗

— William Collins

#fault #finds #his #mistrust #never

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has. ↗

— Confucius

#ability #distressed #fact #his #limitations

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action. ↗

— Confucius

#action #acts #afterwards #before #his