Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal."
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Inferiors
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Aristotle
Philosopher
"A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so."
H. G. Wells
Writer
"The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Author
"Elegance is inferior to virtue."
Jean de La Fontaine
Poet, Fabulist
"One often has need of one inferior to himself."
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"Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors"
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"He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer."
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"It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior."
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"Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior."
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"The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors."
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"So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you."
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"How can I even secretly harbour the thought that my neighbour's faith is inferior to mine?"
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"Be obedient to your superior, and your inferior will obey you."
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"Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior."
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"People can only make you inferior with your consent."
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"In spirituality the Americans are very inferior to us. But their society is very superior to ours."
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"Ahimsa can be practiced only towards those that are inferior to you in every way."
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"Teach the children that Africans are not one iota inferior to Europeans."
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