Defense is superior to opulence.
If wars were won by superior technology alone, the United States would not have been vanquished in Vietnam or waylaid in Afghanistan.
The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.
He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces.
I’ve been to Vietnam and mainland China. Even though the Vietnamese are seemingly poor, they always stop in front of red traffic lights and walk in front of green ones. Even though mainland China’s GDP is higher than that of Vietnam, if you ask me about culture, the Vietnamese culture is superior.
I watch a lot of television. The stuff that they’re putting on television, series like ‘The Americans’ and ‘Game of Thrones,’ it’s so superior to most of the films that are coming out of Hollywood in terms of drama, certainly in terms of what we’re interested in.
I think we suffer from certain alienation. We live on this planet, but we somehow have an idea that we’re elevated from it, that we’re not nature. We’re a creature that manages nature and is superior and does whatever it wants. That creates a separation between humanity and the rest of the planet.
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
Understanding the need for religion is a far superior goal to bashing it.
Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism – and wars.
The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
I don’t think I’ve ever been an agnostic. I’ve always thought there’s a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there’s a world to come.
Mutual funds with superior performance records often falter.
Any small business that’s predicated on technological innovation and is differentiated and superior can expand globally very effectively using the Internet as a vehicle for promotion.
I’ve witnessed thousands of superior athletes try to becomes hitters and fail at it.
If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty.
In practice, conservatives are no less inclined than liberals to adopt superior stances or to tell people how to live their lives.
The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince’s part to pardon.
A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man’s pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.
In accordance to the way that Benn speaks, he is not educated. Sure, he’s educated to a certain extent, but under different circumstances he would be a bouncer on some door in the West End and he’d have three kids from three different women… I am a superior person to that. I have finer points.
Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.
My father used to say superior people never make long visits.
The iPad is a superior consumption device for material on the Web.
With the launch of Big Machine Premium Vodka, we are now offering a superior product that perfectly complements the music we take such great pride in.
I’m always focused on pieces that have superior cut, and I tend to like color.
Very good wine was bought at ten pounds per pipe, the contract price; but the superior quality was fifteen pounds; and some of this was not much inferior to the best London Madeira.
Part of the reason I am so evangelical in our campaigning work is that I had an unshakeable faith in Labour values, but we needed a machine worthy of the message. I grew up with a peerless Conservative machine, with vastly superior resources.
We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in the long cold war against the Soviet Union.
I think I’m the only professional horse rider from the movie industry. Strangely, I’ve seen no men from the industry at equestrian events. Though I’ve seen some ladies like Diya Mirza and Lara Dutta at the race course. Women, by the way, make superior horse riders.
Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior.
You don’t want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven’t done what I do. Most book reviewers haven’t written 11 novels. Many of them haven’t written one.
Having marshalled the men in battle order, as shown in the first diagram, you will observe that each party has two ranks of men, on the first of which stand the superior Pieces, and on the next the eight Pawns.
I work on my body to stay fit, but that does not make me superior to anyone. I am a forthright and hardworking girl.
Unless you are a born connoisseur of art, you will not be able to judge by yourself why certain art is superior to other art.
Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.
If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man’s conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.
The thing is, I really can’t relate to anyone my own age. Not in a superior way – an inferior way, if anything. Socially, I have no idea what my friends are talking about. I don’t listen to any new music. I feel very secluded.
I define power as ‘control over one’s life.’ A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.
Authority is not a quality one person ‘has’, in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.
In the graver and more sentimental communication of man and man, the head still bears the superior sway; in the unreserved intimacies of man and woman, the heart is ever uppermost. Feeling is the main thing, and judgment passes for little.
Communist party leadership in China knows that Canada’s political and media elite values feeling superior to the United States more than they value standing on principle on the international stage.
When work impedes on sleep, poor planning is to blame – not superior will power.
The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
Liberal capitalism is not perfect, but compared to the other ‘isms,’ it’s far superior.
In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.
The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
This is Seattle. We’re supposed to have superior taste.
I was even superior to the Communists and when they didn’t go along with me, I quit them.
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers.
The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
The sixth move of doom? Yeah. So John Cena went to China, took some lessons, and all of a sudden, now he’s got a bad palm strike. Listen, I’ve been traveling the world for years and I’ve been beating up people with martial arts techniques from far superior styles and techniques. So, I ain’t worried about that.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
For thirty years, Jesus never allowed his divinity to manifest itself. He was infinitely superior to everyone but never showed it.
The belief that ‘animals’ are superior or inferior to humans because they live in an eternal now is untrue, because no being lives in a now.
Every Maryland family wants financial security, schools that work, quality healthcare, safer neighborhoods, and ever-expanding economic opportunity. These are the building blocks of a superior quality of life.
Paradoxically, we have become so ethnocentric in our relativism that we feel it is only okay for others – not us – to think their religion is superior!
Practically every time I speak up at a school conference, a political event, or my apartment building association’s annual meeting, I’m met with a display of someone else’s superior intelligence.
I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.
I enjoyed being a teammate of Deion Sanders. He brings different elements to the game that many people would not even realize, and to watch and witness a superior talent like him and watch him prepare and train, and study the game is truly amazing.
