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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.
The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the read more
The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends
Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends
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?
Whoever envies another confesses his superiority
Whoever envies another confesses his superiority
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point.
If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
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.
