Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors.
— John Calvin
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior.
— Aristotle
When superiors are fond of showing their humanity, inferiors try to outstrip one another in their practice of it.
— Confucius
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It already appears, that there must be in every society of men superiors and inferiors, because God has laid in the constitution and course of nature the foundations of the distinction.