Quotes about Inferiority

Thus our arrogance grows as we seek to exalt ourselves above others, as if we were different from them. Truly, there's no one who does not flippantly and boldly disregard and despise others as inferiors.

Is it not rather meant that it was placed far above us, in order to convince us of our utter feebleness?

"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

Even torture that is only verbal reinforce the power of the torturer: The prisoner's imagination leads him to dread the next round of interrogations. And when it happens, the feeling of inferiority becomes more acute; it bores into the brain, and the cultural and psychological defenses that surround the brain disintegrate and vanish. The ego is dissolved.

It never seems like enough. We consistently feel inferior. Many of us know the experience of being approved for what we do. Few of us know the experience of being loved for being just who we are.

The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate.

No man who says, 'I'm as good as you,' believes it. He would not say it if he did.

Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.

God will cease to be God, if he brought into being a single person with the hall-mark of inferiority.