Pastoral Resources

What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.

Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.

The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised.

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.

The sun as the expression of old world energy is torn down from the heavens by modern man, who by virtue of his technological superiority creates his own energy source.

A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

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

The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can.

The French were generous in giving us assistance in corps and army artillery, with its personnel, and we were confident from the start of our superiority over the enemy in guns of all calibers.

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the 'mob' - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture.

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.