Top 44 Inferiority Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Inferiority Quotes from famous people such as Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Carter G. Woodson, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Elbert Hubbard, Rajpal Yadav, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.

Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.
Carter G. Woodson
The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
Elbert Hubbard
I don’t suffer from an inferiority complex because of my looks.
Rajpal Yadav
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
Cesare Pavese
The thought of’ the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.
Carter G. Woodson
I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.
Ed Smith
A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he’s just as good as everybody else.
John B. Keane
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Samuel Johnson
Like a physically beautiful but otherwise rather dull person who trades on his or her looks, Southern California swings perpetually between a profound inferiority complex and an equally profound sense of entitlement.
Meghan Daum
Female inferiority is internalised by us. Women need a lot more confidence.
Gloria Steinem
I don’t have a feeling of inferiority. Never had. I’m as good as anybody, but no better.
Katherine Johnson
I was aware of the pressure of my mom and not just my mom but my entire family. I was very aware of that reality, so it was almost this inferiority complex.
Selah Louise Marley
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.
Alfred Adler
Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.
Sun Tzu
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.
Angelina Grimke
The familiar mood that awaits the sensitive young who are poor and dispossessed is a mood of sharp and painful inferiority, of violently angry tensions, of desperate and overwhelming longings.
Peter Abrahams
Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
Alan Kay
I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.
Barry Gibb
For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.
Gloria Steinem
Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.
Alfred Adler
When it comes to personal appearance, people are quick to cast judgment on people who look better than them. It’s part of the human inferiority complex.
Phil Heath
I had this inferiority complex as a child, as I was not good at speaking. I was also not good in studies or sports and would often flunk in four-five subjects.
Suriya
I am often struck by the anxious inferiority many well-educated British people display towards the U.S., particularly Londoners dazzled by New York, when many postcolonials are accustomed to regarding Britain’s old imperial cosmopolis as the true capital of the western world.
Pankaj Mishra
When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.
Simone de Beauvoir
When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn’t go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn’t train. Then it gets tiring. And you do get bored of it.
Helena Bonham Carter
Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.
Carter G. Woodson
I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.
Peter Matthiessen
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
My mother was this White woman from Texas, from a racist town raised to believe in the inferiority of others by her community, not necessarily by her parents, but certainly by the community around her. And she fled it.
Maya Wiley
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Politicians are nauseating by definition… They can produce nothing, neither a loaf of bread nor a table nor a picture; and this inability to create value, this total inferiority, makes them jealous, vengeful, insolent and a menace to life and limb.
Gerhard Richter
Since anti-racist individuals did not control mass media, the media became the primary tool that would be used and is still used to convince black viewers, and everyone else, of black inferiority.
bell hooks
I’m sometimes surprised by myself: no matter how much time has passed, I wasn’t able to accept my inferiority complex. But I did.
Nayeon
A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.
Samuel Johnson
If somebody has too much stress about their appearance, they can overcome their inferiority complex through surgery.
Park Shin-hye
One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.
Alvin Ailey
Racist assumptions, ethnolinguistic assumptions of inferiority or superiority, are as old as mankind.
Ben Domenech
One of the things that the court held in Brown v. Board of Education is that government can’t impose a badge of inferiority on some of its citizens. Yet that is exactly what Proposition 8 does with respect to gay and lesbian couples in California.
David Boies
Everybody has an inferiority complex when they step into a room. But then when you have children and you get older, it doesn’t really matter. When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn’t go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn’t train.
Helena Bonham Carter
Information is available freely on the Net, but what’s missing is passion. And only a teacher can impart that passion and deep desire for excellence every day. Moreover, a classroom environment helps overcome certain psychological aspects, including inferiority complex.
Rajiv Menon
Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male’s superiority.
Simone de Beauvoir
To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
Alfred Adler
The Hegelian dynamic plays out daily on and off the film sets – women are not lesser beings, but because they are assumed to be, they are subjected to inferior conditions. And this inferiority projects itself through the feeling of weakness and subjugation.
Padmapriya Janakiraman