Inferior Quotes

Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority… The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on “I am not too sure.”

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.

Love, to the inferior man, remains almost wholly a physical matter. The heroine he most admires is the one who offers the grossest sexual provocation; the hero who makes his wife roll her eyes is a perambulating phallus.

People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority.

The fact is that liberty, in any true sense, is a concept that lies quite beyond the reach of the inferior man’s mind. He can imagine and even esteem, in his way, certain false forms of liberty – for example, the right to choose between two political mountebanks, and to yell for the more obviously […]

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

By an inferior man I mean one who knows nothing that is not known to every adult, who can do nothing that could not be learned by anyone in a few weeks, and who meanly admires mean things.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.