#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #government / #superiority / #hegemony / #foreignpolicy / #occupation
„Two years of war have brought tactical changes and immense suffering, but the political status quo endures.“
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/03/gaza-israel-palestine-ceasefire-trump-netanyahu-hamas/
Nicola Sturgeon says #BorisJohnson 'least emotionally intelligent #politician’
“I think #politics sucks it out of people. I also think people with very low #emotional #intelligence are probably disproportionately attracted to the status.
“I guess it kind of sits with #narcissism. I’ve come across them all my life in politics, people who exude this kind of #superiority complex.”
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25378508.nicola-sturgeon-opens-self-doubt-superpower-ahead-memoir/
The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 104 (1955)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/hoffer-eric/16636/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #authoritarian #butchery #ego #evil #humanity #inhumanity #megalomania #ruthlessness #selfrighteousness #superiority #control #sick
#usa #israel #iran : #war / #superiority / #freedomofaction
See also:
Trump: ‘We now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran’
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5354932-iran-skies-control-trump/
A quotation from Joseph Addison
The truth is, the person who pretends to advise, does, in that particular, exercise a superiority over us, and can have no other reason for it, but that, in comparing us with himself, he thinks us defective either in our conduct or our understanding. For these reasons, there is nothing so difficult as the art of making advice agreeable; and indeed all the writers, both ancient and modern, have distinguished themselves among one another, according to the perfection at which they have arrived in this art.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1712-10-17), The Spectator, No. 512
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/addison-joseph/76869…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #advice #adviser #attitude #comparison #paternalism #perspective #superiority
“It was possible to feel superior to other people and feel like a misfit at the same time.” — Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot
#QOTD #JeffreyEugenides #quote #misfit #superiority
https://yahooeysblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/31/quote-of-the-day-5172/
He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find
The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow;
He who surpasses or subdues mankind
Must look down on the hate of those below.
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) English poet
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto 3, st. 45 (1816)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/byron/76078/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #byron #domination #envy #hatred #jealousy #power #resentment #success #superiority
No one, whether poet or orator, ever yet thought anyone else better than himself. This is the case even with bad ones.
[Nemo umquam neque poëta neque orator fuit, qui quemquam meliorem quam se arbitraretur. Hoc etiam malis contingit.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Epistulae ad Atticum [Letters to Atticus], Book 14, Letter 20, sec. 3 (14.20.3) (44 BC) [tr. Shuckburgh (1900), # 724]
Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #self-image #cicero #author #best #creativity #ego #orator #poet #pride #selfappreciation #superiority #writer #writing
A quotation from Jeremy Taylor
He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he be exalted above his Neighbors because he hath more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold Mine! how much is he to give place to a chain of Pearl, or a knot of Diamonds? for certainly that hath the greatest excellence from whence he derives all his gallantry and preeminence over his Neighbours.
Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667) English cleric and author
The Rule and Exercise of Holy Living, ch. 2 “Of Christian Charity,” sec. 4 “Of Humility” (1650)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/taylor-jeremy/75205/
#quote #quotes #quotation #money #comparison #ego #money #pride #riches #superiority #wealth
A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
A cynical habit of thought and speech, a readiness to criticise work which the critic himself never tries to perform, an intellectual aloofness which will not accept contact with life’s realities — all these are marks, not as the possessor would fain think, of superiority, but of weakness. They mark the men unfit to bear their part manfully in the stern strife of living, who seek, in the affectation of contempt for the achievements of others, to hide from others and from themselves their own weakness.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)
Speech (1910-04-23), “Citizenship in a Republic [The Man in the Arena],” Sorbonne, Paris
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/7…
#quote #quotes #quotation #affectation #criticism #cynic #cynicism #ego #superiority #weakness
A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
There are many men who feel a kind of twisted pride in cynicism; there are many who confine themselves to criticism of the way others do what they themselves dare not even attempt. There is no more unhealthy being, no man less worthy of respect, than he who either really holds, or feigns to hold, an attitude of sneering disbelief toward all that is great and lofty, whether in achievement or in that noble effort which, even if it fails, comes second to achievement.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)
Speech (1910-04-23), “Citizenship in a Republic [The Man in the Arena],” Sorbonne, Paris
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/7…
#quote #quotes #quotation #achievement #condescension #cynicism #disbelief #effort #ego #pride #sardonicism #scoffing #sneering #superiority
A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
Let the man of learning, the man of lettered leisure, beware of that queer and cheap temptation to pose to himself and to others as the cynic, as the man who has outgrown emotions and beliefs, the man to whom good and evil are as one. The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)
Speech (1910-04-23), “Citizenship in a Republic [The Man in the Arena],” Sorbonne, Paris
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/7…
#quote #quotes #quotation #superiority #cynicism #intellectual #sardonicism #scoffing #sneer #sophistication #worldliness
#caitlinjohnstone on why this #genocide belongs to all #western powers: https://youtube.com/watch?v=8rnBRf9APzs
We’re all complicit in the atrocities live streamed from #gaza. Our rulers enable #warcrimes and their #clientmedia generates #ManufacturedConsent by suppressing inconvenient truth, feeding our own #superiority complex and letting us become desensitised to the #crimesagainsthumanity enacted by the #zionistentity.
As a society this is on us.
A new nuclear arms race is beginning. It will be far more dangerous than the last one
With #Putin’s #threats in #Ukraine, #China’s accelerated #weapons programme and the #US’s desire for #superiority, what will it take for leaders to step back from the brink?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/14/nuclear-weapons-war-new-arms-race-russia-china-us
#nuclear #NuclearWeapons #war #ArmsRace #OnePlanet #capitalism
A quotation from Selden, John:
«
We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.
»
Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/selden-john/27686/
#quote #quotes #quotation #admiration #applause #comparison #ego #excellence #pride #standards #superiority
A quotation from Fitzgerald, F. Scott:
«
Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hea…
»
Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/fitzgerald-f-scott/22556/
#quote #quotes #quotation #ego #pride #wealthy #rich #selfreliance #superiority
Owning an EV does have the benefit of being immediately visible to everyone, so you can feel superior to others without having to announce "I'm vegan" every time you enter a room.
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“We never doubted that the chauffeur knew himself to be the charioteer of the sun.”
