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On the line between confidence and conceit

These quotes examine superiority as something both claimed and resented, from a speaker marooned on a figurative crag above others to one openly admitting a superiority complex worth losing.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Ocean
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Nov 07, 2020

I am marooned on a Crag of Superiority in an ocean of soldiers.

Quotes by Wilfred Owen

Fiction
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Nov 07, 2020

I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.

Quotes by Peter Matthiessen

Moral
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Nov 07, 2020

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.

Quotes by Mary Douglas

Get
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Nov 07, 2020

I have a superiority complex I need to get rid of.

Quotes by Josh Rosen

Often
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Nov 07, 2020

A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.

Quotes by Graham Greene

Few
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Nov 07, 2020

Censoriously asserting one's moral superiority and treating skeptics as imbeciles and deplorables wins few converts.

Quotes by Bret Stephens

Mankind
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Nov 07, 2020

Racist assumptions, ethnolinguistic assumptions of inferiority or superiority, are as old as mankind.

Quotes by Ben Domenech

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