Superiority may refer to:
- Air superiority, the dominance of one military's airborne forces over another in any given conflict
- Superiority complex, psychological condition
- "Superiority" (short story), a book by Arthur C. Clarke
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Famous quotes containing the word superiority:
“... what is especially insufferable in a woman is a restless, bold, domineering manner, for this manner goes against nature.... [ellipsis in source] No matter what her worth, no matter that she never forgets that she could be a man by virtue of her superiority of mind and the force of her will, on the outside she must be a woman! She must present herself as that creature made to please, to love to seek support, that being who is inferior to man and who approaches the angels.”
—Elisabeth-Felicite Bayle-Mouillard (1796–1865)
“Man’s characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment brutally imposed on him, but by a conscience superior to his own, the superiority of which he feels. Because the greater, better part of his existence transcends the body, he escapes the body’s yoke, but is subject to that of society.”
—Emile Durkheim (1858–1917)
“Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)