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"Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive."
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"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 last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world."
"Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival."
"A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility."
"He hadn't yet had enough experience with humans to know that the thing they hold dearest to their hearts, the last thing they relinquish when all else is fading, is the consoling belief in the inferiority of others."
"He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again."
"Remember: If someone's trying to pull you down that means they're already beneath you."
"Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority."
"Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive."
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"Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker."
"It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on."
"Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, and so will you, looking for a better place."
"Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications."
"Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours."
"I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good."
"If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny."
"Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination."
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