The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance.
Jane AustenMots clés perception education empowerment equality girls reason men women stupidity prejudice ignorance foolishness stereotypes disdain clichés charms desirability folly imbecility inferiority
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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
PlatoMots clés politics government rule inferiority
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Give me something about bacteria. Give me something that won't make me feel so inferior
William SaroyanMots clés inferiority
The girl's life had been squandered in the streets, and among the most noisome of the stews and dens of London, but there was something of the woman's original nature left in her still; and when she heard a light step approaching the door opposite to that by which she had entered, and thought of the wide contrast which the small room would in another moment contain, she felt burdened with the sense of her own deep shame: and shrunk as though she could scarcely bear the presence of her with whom she had sought this interview.
Charles DickensMots clés women shame inferiority chaste
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.
Mark TwainMots clés wisdom man wrong right recovery inferiority
Overconfidence blurs out the risk. Inferiority magnifies it.
Toba BetaMots clés life truth overconfidence risk inferiority blurs-out magnify
It's such a shame that we know so little about our own country, that we can't find it in our hearts to love our own kind. Instead we admire those who show our country disrespect and betray its people.
Orhan PamukMots clés patriotism superiority inferiority
No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne."
"I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is more than worthy of you."
She stood on the hearth; she was pale as the white marble slab and cornice behind her; her eyes flashed large, dilated, unsmiling.
"And I ask in what sense that young man is worthy of me?
Mots clés empowerment equality gender men women choice integrity marriage feminism self-determination independence self-awareness marriage-proposal courtship matrimony suitability dignity inferiority worthiness social-norms wooing
And wasn't it this bright boy you selected for beating and tortures after hours? Of course it was. We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for their are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against. So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind. Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man? Me? I won't stomach them for a minute. And so when houses were finally fireproofed completely, all over the world (you were correct in your assumption the other night) there was no longer need of firemen for the old purposes. They were given the new job, as custodians of our peace of mind, the focus of our understandable and rightful dread of being inferior: official censors, judges and executors. That's you, Montag, and that's me.
Ray BradburyMots clés fear happiness equality peace fahrenheit-451 censorship inferiority ray-bradbury
[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.
Wallace StegnerMots clés perception marriage inequality husbands wives apology matrimony inferiority
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