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Whoever envies another confesses his superiority
Whoever envies another confesses his superiority
The people of your culture cling with fanatical tenacity to the specialness of man. They want desperately to perceive a read more
The people of your culture cling with fanatical tenacity to the specialness of man. They want desperately to perceive a vast gulf between man and the rest of creation. This mythology of human superiority justifies their doing whatever they please with the world, just the way Hitler’s mythology of Aryan superiority justified his doing whatever he pleased with Europe. But in the end this mythology is not deeply satisfying. The Takers are a profoundly lonely people. The world for them is enemy territory, and they live in it like an army of occupation, alienated and isolated by their extraordinary specialness.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice read more
Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice does not reason, or it would not be prejudice... If prejudice could reason, it would dispel itself.
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
Male superiority in former days was easily demonstrated, because if a woman questioned her husband's he could beat her. From read more
Male superiority in former days was easily demonstrated, because if a woman questioned her husband's he could beat her. From superiority in this respect others were thought to follow. Men were more reasonable than women, more inventive, less swayed b
A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?
A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?
Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends
Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends
Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because read more
Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected
