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Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.
by Frank Muir (Writer, English , born in 1920) keywords: gentle, grin, humor, inflicting, jokes, masculine, pursuit, solitude, superiority, usually, way, weapon , wit 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.
by Camille Paglia (Author, American , born in 1947) keywords: antoinette, attentive, betraying, citizens, committed, concerned, delusion, democratic, democrats, freedom, marie, mob, mortals, needs, ordinary, outside, party, passionately, populist, power, product, ready, speech, stand, structure, superiority, those, thought, wishes , word The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
by Sallust (Historian , Roman) keywords: beauty, eternal, fame, fleeting, fragile, glorious, goes, intellectual, possession, superiority , wealth 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.
by Hu Shih (Philosopher, Chinese , born in 1891) keywords: china, chinese, christian, convince, could, culture, european, had, intelligentsia, jesuits, learned, mission, never, position, show, succeed, superiority , were All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.
by Peter Singer (Philosopher, Australian , born in 1946) keywords: animals, arguments, cannot, equals, fact, hard, man, our, prove, shatter, suffering , superiority Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
by Adam Smith (Economist, Scottish , born in 1970) keywords: altogether, ambition, desire, directing, great, instrument, leading, man, peculiar, real, seems, speech , superiority If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.
by Alexander Smith (Poet, Scottish , born in 1830) keywords: best, comes, course, death, gifted, him, his, inherited, kill, look, make, man, may, nature, noble, out, personally, race, superiority, wish , your It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.
by James Smithson (Scientist, British , born in 1765) keywords: animals, consequently, earth, error, evil, found, greatness, happiness, high, him, his, holds, ignorance, inhabit, knowledge, loss, man, other, over, probably, superiority, which , without All sensible Army people turned gas warfare down as being utterly insane since, in view of your superiority in the air, it would not be long before it would bring the most terrible catastrophe upon German cities, which were completely unprotected.
by Albert Speer (Architect, German , born in 1905) keywords: air, army, before, being, bring, catastrophe, cities, completely, down, gas, german, insane, long, most, sensible, since, superiority, terrible, turned, unprotected, upon, utterly, view, warfare, were, which, would , your It should seem, then, that the nature of society dictates another, a higher branch, whose superiority arises from its being the interested and natural conservator of the universal interest.
by Ezra Stiles (Clergyman, American , born in 1727) keywords: another, arises, being, branch, dictates, higher, interest, interested, natural, nature, seem, should, society, superiority, then, universal , whose The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.
by Kim Il Sung (Statesman, North Korean , born in 1912) keywords: able, boast, defeat, hate, imperialism, imperialists, important, most, otherwise, our, preparations, superiority, teach, technological, their, thing, war , will Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.
by George Washington (President, American , born in 1732) keywords: another, army, discipline, gives, hurtful, more, neglect, nothing, numbers, over, service, superiority , than Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.
by Mary Wollstonecraft (Writer, British , born in 1759) keywords: attentions, degraded, fact, manly, men, own, pay, receiving, sex, superiority, supporting, systematically, their, think, trivial, which , women 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.
by Carter G. Woodson (Historian, American , born in 1875) keywords: certain, different, each, evidence, gifts, indicates, inferiority, merely, moreover, ness, others, possess, race, races, superiority , which
