Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"Envy is a declaration of inferiority."
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Inferiority
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Steven Wright
Comedian
"I have an inferiority complex, but it’s not a very good one."
Angelina Grimke
Activist
"Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education."
Alfred Adler
Psychologist
"We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority."
Jane Austen
Novelist
"I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness ... Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy."
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"A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority."
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"Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority."
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"You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it."
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"Baloney is just salami with an inferiority complex."
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"All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition."
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"The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public."
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"One often has need of one inferior to himself."
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"Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority."
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"Whether our reformers admit it or not, the economic and social inferiority of women is responsible for prostitution."
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"The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority."
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"We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides."
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"When an individual (or a group of individuals) is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he is inferior."
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"No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself."
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"For cultural invasion to succeed, it is essential that those invaded become convinced of their intrinsic inferiority."
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"Quotation confesses inferiority."
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"The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated."
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"It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own sex, because she has points of inferiority."
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"We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate."
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"When we have anger in us, we suffer. When we have discrimination in us, we suffer. When we have the complex of superiority, we suffer. When we have the complex of inferiority, we suffer also. So when we are capable of transforming these negative things in us, we are free and happiness is possible."
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"The inferiority of women is man-made."
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