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Inferiors Quotes

A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.215, Wordsworth Editions

The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.

H. G. Wells (2016). “H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…”, p.156, e-artnow

Elegance is inferior to virtue.

Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Janet Todd (1989). “The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft”, NYU Press

One often has need of one inferior to himself.

"Fables (Book II)". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1668-1694.

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

Thomas Mann (2010). “Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories”, p.77, Vintage

Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.

Joseph Addison (1858). “Works, Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition: Withletters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.498

I don't understand why or how anyone ever pulled off the whole idea of 'women are inferior.'

Interview with Sheerly Avni, www.motherjones.com. November, 2008.