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"It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of." »Jonathan Swift
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"A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men." »Thomas Carlyle
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"Old creature with a sore leg (reference to Elizabeth I- he was incorrectly told she limped because of a varicose vein)" »King Henry III of France
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"The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green." »Thomas Calyle
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"We must oblige everybody as much as we can; we have often need of assistance from those inferior to ourselves." »La Fontaine
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"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." »Roosevelt, Eleanor
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"I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be inferior." »Katherine Hepburn
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"I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex." »Katharine Hepburn
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"A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so." »Aristotle
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"To strive with an equal is dangerous with a superior, mad with an inferior, degrading." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"No form of Nature is inferior to Art for the arts merely imitate natural forms." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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"The scars you acquire by exercising courage, Will never make you feel inferior." »D. A. Battista
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"It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else." »Plutarch
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"While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior." »Henry C. Link
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"There was never in the history of the world a great politician who was not hated by large numbers of inferior men." »Unknown
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"It is more than enough to be an ethically and an evolutionarily developed human being. All other titles and identities of man are inferior to this fact!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor." »Major General Sir William Napier, Peninsular War [1810]
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"It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism." »H. P. Lovecraft
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"As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying." »Arthur C. Clarke
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"The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety." »H. L. Mencken
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"I am inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart--the best brain." »Robert Green Ingersoll
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"The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves." »Laurens Van der Post
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"Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are." »Alford
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"Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others And shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status." »Lao Tzu
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"Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shore, the scar of our racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society. From the sixteenth century forward, blood flowed in battles over racial supremacy. We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or feel remorse for this shameful episode. Our literature, our films, our drama, our folklore all exalt it. Our children are still taught to respect the violence which reduced a red-skinned people of an earlier culture into a few fragmented groups herded into impoverished reservations." »John Kennedy, Autobiography of malcolm x
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"What I want to fix your attention on is the vast overall movement towards the discrediting, and finally the elimination, of every kind of human excellence -- moral, cultural, social or intellectual. And is it not pretty to notice how 'democracy' (in the incantatory sense) is now doing for us the work that was once done by the most ancient dictatorships, and by the same methods The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.' Children who are fit to proceed may be artificially kept back, because the others would get a trauma by being left behind. The bright pupil thus remains democratically fettered to his own age group throughout his school career, and a boy who would be capable of tackling Aeschylus or Dante sits listening to his coeval's attempts to spell out A CAT SAT ON A MAT. We may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when 'I'm as good as you' has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish. The few who might want to learn will be prevented who are they to overtop their fellows And anyway, the teachers -- or should I say nurses -- will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturbable conceit and incurable ignorance among men." »Clive Staples Lewis
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