Quotes about Inferior
But I also have a mind; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?
- Job 12:3
I consider myself in no way inferior to those “super-apostles.”
- 2 Corinthians 11:5
In what way were you inferior to the other churches, except that I was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!
- 2 Corinthians 12:13
If the Lord counts the natural beauty of the body inferior to that of the soul, what thinks He of spurious beauty, rejecting utterly as He does all falsehood?
- Clement of Alexandria
Each angel is inferior or superior to every other angel. From the fact that angels are pure spirits it logically follows that they are unequal.
- Peter Kreeft
Even if we have the best product in the marketplace, we'll lose to an inferior product if our competitor's offer is communicated more clearly.
- Donald Miller
For here again we come within range of that very interesting and obscure masculine complex which has had so much influence upon the woman's movement; that deep-seated desire, not so much that she shall be inferior as that he shall be superior, which plants him wherever one looks, not only in front of the arts, but barring the way to politics too, even when the risk to himself seems infinitesimal and the suppliant humble and devoted.
- Virginia Woolf
Man in the mass sinks unconsciously to an inferior moral and intellectual level, to that level which is always there, below the threshold of consciousness, ready to break forth as soon as it is activated by the formation of a mass. ... Since nobody is capable of recognizing just where and how much he himself is possessed and unconscious, he simply projects his own condition upon his neighbor, and thus it becomes a sacred duty to have the biggest guns and the most poisonous gas.
- Carl Jung
Moses experienced this amazing relationship of friendship with God under an inferior covenant. And it is improper to expect superior blessings from an inferior covenant.
- Bill Johnson
And I wondered that I now loved Thee, and no phantasm for Thee. And yet did I not press on to enjoy my God; but was borne up to Thee by Thy beauty, and soon borne down from Thee by mine own weight, sinking with sorrow into these inferior things.
- St. Augustine
The life of a Christian should be a meditation how to unloose his affection from inferior things. He will easily die that is dead before in affection.
- Richard Sibbes
In a society where the good is defined in terms of profit rather than in terms of human need, there must always be some group of people who, through systematized oppression, can be made to feel surplus, to occupy the place of the dehumanized inferior. Within this society, that group is made up of Black and Third World people, working-class people, older people, and women.
- Audre Lorde