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“A conservative is someone who does not think he is morally superior to his grandfather.”

Thinking Doe Conservative Superiors Grandfather

“I believe in the supreme excellence of righteousness; I believe that the law of righteousness will triumph in the universe over all evil; I believe that in the attempt to fulfil the law of righteousness, however imperfect it must remain, are to be found the inspiration, the consolation, and the sanctification of human existence. We live in order to finish an, as yet, unfinished universe, unfinished so far as the human, that is, the highest part of it, is concerned. We live in order to develop the superior qualities of man which are, as yet, for the most part latent.”

“In general, American life is more easy-going. And civic pride, national pride in a cultural sense, is great in America. I think what they esteem in America is character and energy, and being different and superior to other peoples. Of course, every nation feels itself to be superior, but in America it's a jaunty feeling, and in some cases a rather ominous one among the super-patriots.”

“I'd like to point out that I don't think that there is anything fundamentally superior in the GPL as compared to the BSD license, for example. But the GPL is what I want to program with, because unlike the BSD license it guarantees that anybody who works on the project in the future will also contribute their changes back to the community.”

Thinking Want Community Example Projects Program Superiors Guarantees License Guarantees That

Author:Linus Torvalds

“Other people have other goals, and sometimes the BSD style licenses are better for those goals. I personally tend to prefer the GPL, but that really doesn't mean that the GPL is any way inherently superior - it depends on what you want the license to do.”

People Way Want Mean Sometimes Goal Style Depends What You Want Superiors License Licenses

Author:Linus Torvalds

“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.”

I Can Used My Own Views Planets Prove Superiors Civilisation Lunatic Colony Prove It Asylums Undesirable Lunatic Asylums

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“The superior man limits his achievements.”

Men Limits Achievement Superiors Superior Man

Author:Confucius

“Humanism is an overemphasis on human worth and ability, leading man to glorify himself instead of God...While its historical forms may vary, humanism inevitably leads people away from God and spiritual concerns. It promotes the false idea that man is good and that he is superior to God. Secular Humanism of the twentieth century altogether rejects belief in God and worships man as God. The pride of humanism will not go unpunished.”

“There has been a constant struggle on the part of the military element to keep the end- fighting, or readiness to fight-superior to mere administrative considerations. The military man, having to do the fighting, considers that the chief necessity; the administrator equally naturally tends to think the smooth running of the machine the most admirable quality.”

Source: Mahan on Naval Warfare: Selections from the Writing of Rear Admiral Alfred T. Mahan

“We like to think we're superior to the people who, centuries ago, burned 'witches' for no better reason than a neighbor's belief that his crop failure or impotence was caused by that woman's action. But reporters are still prone to the same mental errors that caused these killings: seeing patterns where there are none, finding causes where there is only coincidence, ignoring our sources' political agendas and turning scanty evidence into panic.”

“What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ...both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness ...but with regard to what happiness is they differ.”

People Men Running Action Highest Regard Superiors Goods Refinement

Book:Nicomachean Ethics

Source: Nicomachean Ethics

“It is a curious fact that of all the illusions that beset mankind none is quite so curious as that tendency to suppose that we are mentally and morally superior to those who differ from us in opinion.”

Facts Opinion Mankind Illusion Superiors Tendencies Curious

Book:Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers ...: John Wesley. Henry George. Garibaldi. Richard Cobden. Thomas Paine. John Knox

Source: Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers ...: John Wesley. Henry George. Garibaldi. Richard Cobden. Thomas Paine. John Knox

“Those who want their rights respected under the Constitution and the law ought to set the example themselves of observing the Constitution and the law. While there may be those of high intelligence who violate the law at times, the barbarian and the defective always violate it. Those who disregard the rules of society are not exhibiting a superior intelligence, are not promoting freedom and independence, are not following the path of civilization, but are displaying the traits of ignorance, of servitude, of savagery, and treading the way that leads back to the jungle.”

“There is no sphere of human thought in which it is easier to show superficial cleverness and the appearance of superior wisdom than in discussing questions of currency and exchange”

Humans Shows Easier Appearance Superiors Spheres Currency Superficial Discussing Cleverness Human Thought

Author:Winston Churchill

“Don't be sucked in by the su-superior, don't swallow the culture bait, don't drink, don't drink and get beerier and beerier, do learn to discriminate.”

Culture Drink Superiors Bait

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“When we look at the astonishing material achievements of the West. we see these things as the result, not of compulsion or government action or the superior wisdom of a few, but of that system of competition and free enterprise, rewarding success and penalising failure, which enables every individual to participate by his private decisions in shaping the future of his society.”

Looks Government Action Individual Decision Results Materials Achievement Competition West Superiors Enterprise Compulsion Astonishing Free Enterprise Shaping The Future

Author:Enoch Powell

“The vast carnival of cruelty called animal exploitation goes on and on - and it is all so needless, even counter-productive. There is already an adequate (often superior) non-animal substitute for virtually everything obtained by animal suffering and slaughter.”

Suffering Animal Goes On Superiors Cruelty Productive Substitutes Exploitation Adequate Slaughter Carnivals Animal Suffering

Author:H. Jay Dinshah

“Americans' deepest religion is often equality. The notion that Christ alone is God-superior, authoritative, supernatural-and that Christ's teaching and person is far greater than Buddha's, or Muhammad's, or Moses's, no matter how much great and good wisdom may be contained in those others, is scandalous.”

May Persons Matter Christ Greater Teaching Notion Superiors Moses Muhammad Scandalous Christ Alone

Book:Handbook of Catholic Apologetics: Reasoned Answers to Questions of Faith

Source: Handbook of Catholic Apologetics: Reasoned Answers to Questions of Faith

“While dwelling with pleasing satisfaction upon the superior excellence of our political institutions, let us not be unmindful that liberty is power; that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers be the most powerful nation upon earth, and that the tenure of power by man is, in the moral purposes of his Creator, upon condition that it shall be exercised to ends of beneficence, to improve the condition of himself and his fellow men.”

Source: John Quincy Adams and American continental empire: letters, papers and speeches

“There are a host of ethnic minorities in China but they often have a weak sense of identity and are relatively small in total number. History has taught the Han that other groups will and should ultimately be absorbed and assimilated as Han. There is a belief that the Han enjoy a superior and far more advanced culture.”

Should Culture Belief Enjoy Numbers Groups Identity Taught Weak China Superiors Minorities Host

Author:Martin Jacques

“The superior man... does not set his mind either for or against anything, he will pursue whatever is right. The superior man thinks of virtue, the common man of comfort.”

Thinking Men Mind Doe Common Virtue Comfort Superiors Pursue Common Man Superior Man

Author:Confucius

“A man has integrity if his interest in the good of the service is at all times greater than his personal pride, and when he holds himself to the same line of duty when unobserved as he would follow if his superiors were present”

Ifs Men Interest Lines Greater Duty Pride Integrity Superiors All Time Personal Pride

Author:Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

“Men, through no fault of theirs, get born into cultures that tell them that if a woman can do it, it's not worth doing, or if they're not superior to women in one way or another, they're not really masculine.”

Ifs Men Way Culture Can Do Born Faults Superiors One Way Masculine

Author:Gloria Steinem

“We do what we see and what we're told. If we haven't been raised in a family or in a community where women are treated as full human beings and men don't have to be superior anymore, we continue to think that it's not only natural but inevitable.”

Ifs Thinking Men Humans Community Natural Human Beings Havens Raised Treated Superiors Inevitable

Author:Gloria Steinem

“Islam developed in opposition to orthodox Christianity from the very start, and it considers itself superior to Christianity. So far, it has only been tolerant in places where it is in the minority.”

Christianity Islam Superiors Opposition Minorities Orthodox Orthodox Christianity

Author:Walter Kasper

“A pack of jackasses led by a lion is superior to a pack of lions led by a jackass.”

Superiors Lions Packs Jackasses

Author:George Washington

“Nature is always trying to tell us that we are not so superior or independent or alone or autonomous as we may think.”

Thinking Trying May Independent Superiors Always Trying Autonomous

Book:It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture & Other Essays

Source: It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture & Other Essays

“Nothing that comes from God will minister to my pride of self-congratulation. If I am tempted to be complacent and to feel superior because I have had a remarkable vision or an advanced spiritual experience, I should go at once to my knees and repent of the whole thing. I have fallen victim to the enemy.”

Ifs Feels Should Self Whole Spiritual Vision Enemy Pride Victim Gods Will Superiors Ministers Knees Fallen Remarkable Congratulations Tempted Repent Complacent Spiritual Experience

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Resentment is not morally superior to earning money.”

Superiors Resentment Earning Earning Money

Author:Paul Singer

“All my best friends are women except for one or two. I feel women are superior to men, and I love having them around. All that female energy is good for me.”

Men Feels Two Energy Female Superiors My Best Friend

Author:John Polson

“Happiness and sadness are just two eternal truths like day and night. A man of superior intellect is never affected by these emotions. They are not base emotions at all but a reflection of our thoughts, a reaction to our perspective on things we see, hear and do. Equanimity is not only desirable in a warrior, but a must. Without it, you are as good as dead in the battlefield.”

Source: ASURA: Tale of the Vanquished

“In a capitalist society there are always inequalities of class and wealth. People who inherit money and property will always see themselves as being superior to those who have to work for it.”

People Wealth Class Property Superiors Inequality Capitalist

Author:Sally Wentworth

“Creatures which, lacking mankind's superior brain power, did not concern themselves with finding someone to blame, and instead tried to find someone to eat.”

Brain Mankind Creatures Findings Concern Blame Superiors Lacking Finding Someone Brain Power

Book:Jingo: (Discworld Novel 21)

Source: Jingo: (Discworld Novel 21)

“Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity. The young must be dampened down. Never let them know how good they can be. That brings change. Spend lots of committee time talking about how to deal with exceptional students. Don't spend any time dealing with how the conventional teacher feels threatened by emerging talents and squelches them because of a deep-seated desire to feel superior and safe in a safe environment.”

“... we ought even to hold as a fixed principle that what I see white I believe to be black, if the superior authorities define it to be so.”

Ifs Believe I Believe Black White Principles Ought Authority Superiors Fixed

Author:Ignatius of Loyola

“The man of wealth [should] consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer to produce the most beneficial results for the community - the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience and ability to administer, doing for them better than that they would or could do for themselves.”

Men Should Community Wealth Ability Results Produce He Man Becoming Mere Superiors Agents Fund Revenue Beneficial Brethren Surplus Trustees Trust Funds Wisdom Experience

Author:Andrew Carnegie

“I have never met a man who was not my superior in some particular.”

Men Particular Mets Superiors

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“...those who think that faith is superior to reason, and try to reason me into thinking that way; why don't they faith me into it?”

Thinking Way Trying Reason Superiors

Author:Greg Erwin

“God did not create the strife between races, nor did He intend for it to be that way. Strife between races and ethnic groups comes from sin-and sin resides in the human heart. The Bible says, “What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you?” (James 4:1). When one group or one race claims it is superior to another, pride has taken control-and pride is a sin.Instead, God wants us to learn to accept each other and love each other-and this becomes possible, as we turn our lives over to Christ and allow Him to change us from within.”

“A Tibetan proverb says that it is better to live for one day as a tiger than to live for a thousand years as a sheep. Well, I think the opposite, because the most important thing is to exist! Living sheep is superior to dead tiger!”

Thinking Years Wells Important One Day Thousand Opposites Important Things Superiors Sheep Thousand Years Tigers Tibetan

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Doing goodness, but doing goodness only is the best and the most superior religion of all the times!”

Goodness Superiors Doing Good

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Foot is superior to wing, because even when we have wings to fly in the sky, we still need feet so as not to crawl on the ground!”

Needs Stills Feet Sky Wings Superiors Wings To Fly

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Without a sense of the shame or guilt of his or her action, the child will only be hardened in rebellion by physical punishment. Shame (and praise) help the child to internalize the parent's judgment. It impresses upon the child that the parent is not only more powerful but also right. Like the Puritans, Locke (in 1690), wanted the child to adopt the parent's moral position, rather than simply bow to superior strength or social pressure.”

Children Helping Action Wanted Social Parent Powerful Moral Position Judgment Pressure Praise Shame Guilt Punishment Superiors Rebellion Bows Impress Puritan Hardened Social Pressure

Author:C. Sommerville

“If you actually have to engage with somebody who's superior to you and actually battle with them, struggle with them, I think it's more interesting, and funnier for the audience.”

Ifs Thinking Interesting Audience Struggle Battle Superiors

Author:Peter Capaldi

“That's the reason I believe in the power of prayer, because I believe you have to be able to first believe in a being superior to you, You have to believe in God and once you're able to believe in God and embrace the greatness of the creator, then you're able to believe in yourself and embrace the greatness that God put into you and each of us, and you're able to tap into that. But there will be days.”

Firsts Believe Reason Able I Believe Prayer Greatness Embrace Creator I Believe In Superiors Believe In Yourself Believe In God Believe In You

Author:Cathy Hughes

“Nobody is "superior" to anybody else, only "different", that is all!”

Different Superiors

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“If your enemy is superior, evade him”

Ifs Enemy Superiors

Author:Sun Tzu

“Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dreams, in the disinterested play of thought. It tends to ruin once and for all other psychic mechanisms and to substitute itself for them in solving all the principle problems of life.”

Play Problem Dream Reality Form Certain Belief Principles Superiors Ruins Substitutes Association Mechanism Psychics Neglected Surrealism Omnipotence Disinterested

Author:Andre Breton

“Over the long run, superior performance depends on superior learning.”

Long Running Depends Performances Superiors Long Runs Superior Performance

Author:Peter Senge

“Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world; and, whatever apparent disadvantages he may suffer in the comparison with others, he has some invisible distinctions, some latent reserve of excellence, which he throws into the balance, and by which he generally fancies that it is turned in his favour.”

Source: Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings

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