With the accent, it's an internal dialogue that Southerners have with themselves. We kind of carry around that shame, that feeling of being inferior to the North. I think I did lose some of the accent for a while. Because when I was a graduate student, I was terrified at having to get up in front of a roomful of smart New York kids.

Bobbie Ann Mason

There should be a tacit code or understanding among privileged people not to endorse things that give others an inferiority complex.

Abhay Deol

Vile Understanding Understand

Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.

Abu Bakr

Great God Yes

Negative feedback can make people feel inferior.

Adam Grant

T Rio People

For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority of blacks, the heritage of slavery, overpopulation - for why Haiti remains the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.

Adam Hochschild

Art Age Why

Some of the traits that make you a great entrepreneur also work against you. Examining data of high-scoring people, we find that oftentimes the world frustrates them: They're super-smart, they're super-capable, and the work quality of their peers is vastly inferior to what they can achieve on their own.

Adeo Ressi

Work Time Great

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

Time Intelligence Art

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.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Yes Wit Want

I have reached a level where I can compete with great players. I do not feel inferior to anybody.

Alexis Sanchez

Pet Great Wit

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

War Power Great

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

Alfred Adler

Us Temper T

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

Power Great Experience

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.

Alfred Adler

Ted T Sit

When I started researching history in the 1960s, a lot of women about whom I've subsequently written were actually footnotes to history. There was a perception that women weren't important. And it's true. Women were seen historically as far inferior to men.

Alison Weir

Women Men History

I, personally, have had to rise above my feelings of inferiority to my sister Anjelica, not to mention feeling sorry for myself because I lost my mother so young.

Allegra Huston

Men Young You

One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.

Alvin Ailey

Life Your You

Body image - what we're supposed to look like - is made so unattainable that all girls are put in this position of feeling inferior. That's a horrible thing.

Amy Heckerling

Age Up Unattainable

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

Women Sympathy Men

Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women.

Anna Howard Shaw

Work Women Men

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.

Anthony Powell

Who While Trait

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

Aristotle

Which Up T

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.

Barry Gibb

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

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

Ben Domenech

No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error and partiality may be corrected.

Benjamin Robbins Curtis

We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.

Bernard de Mandeville

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

Bertrand Russell

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

Billy Graham

Because we lived only a mile outside the town of Mayfield, I was acutely conscious of being country. I felt inferior to people in town because we had to grow our food and make our clothes.

Bobbie Ann Mason

With the accent, it's an internal dialogue that Southerners have with themselves. We kind of carry around that shame, that feeling of being inferior to the North. I think I did lose some of the accent for a while. Because when I was a graduate student, I was terrified at having to get up in front of a roomful of smart New York kids.

Bobbie Ann Mason

In England, there is a dividing line between artists and illustrators, who are thought inferior to painters. Well, that's absolute rubbish. Some of the most creative work is being done in children's books. In Japan, everything is art. They don't say painting is better than ceramics or dress design.

Brian Wildsmith

We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex. I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.

C. V. Raman

I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.

Caitlin Moran

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

Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.

Carter G. Woodson

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

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

Cesare Pavese

IQ is equivalent to chip speed, and superior chip speed will enable certain things that inferior chip speed will not enable. The same is true about just about any human attribute you can think of that has no relationship to IQ whatsoever.

Charles Murray

I felt inferior. I had this tremendous need to perform. I wanted to be acceptable to my peers. I thought if I could just be a big star, I'd feel like somebody, too.

Charlotte Rae

I don't see female characters as different or inferior to male characters.

Cheo Hodari Coker

To terrify children with the image of hell... to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

Christopher Hitchens

When I look at a digitally acquired and projected image, it looks inferior against an original negative anamorphic print or an IMAX one.

Christopher Nolan

The anchovy which is found in the sea at Athens, men despise on account of its abundance and say that it is a poor man's fish; but in other cities, they prize it above everything, even where it is far inferior to the Attic anchovy.

Chrysippus

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Confucius

In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle, no one cares who has faster fists, but to lose an argument suggests inferior intelligence.

Dan Hill

Sports fans have been mistreated for a long time. They have overpaid for inferior food and they have had poor service.

Dave Checketts

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

Strutting and preening is, in fact, the surest sign of an inferiority complex.

David Brin

The ethos of 50 years ago was that there was one kind of English that was right and everything else was wrong; one kind of access that was right and everything else was inferior. Then nobody touched language for two generations. When it gradually came back in, we didn't want to go back to what we did in the 1950s. There's a new kind of ethos now.

David Crystal

Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous.

David Ogilvy