To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
Unbridled arrogance is worse than pride; for if pride will not break a superior, arrogance will not brook and equal.
There will never be a time when the old horse is not superior to any auto ever made.
The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent.
Always respect your superiors, if you have any.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
If you oppress who is below you then you won't be safe from the punishment of who is above you.
When superiors are fond of showing their humanity, inferiors try to outstrip one another in their practice of it.
Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity.
What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence.
Treat your inferiors as you would be treated by your betters.
Nobody really likes large-scale organizations; nobody likes to take orders from a superior who takes orders from a superior who takes orders.
I wanted to be respected by filmmakers, and why should they respect me if they saw that my superiors did not treat me with respect.
Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.
So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you.
Genius is only a superior power of seeing.
Choose the company of your superiors whenever you can have it.
In spirituality the Americans are very inferior to us. But their society is very superior to ours.
In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors.
3rd Earl of Kingston
If thou hast no inferiors, have patience awhile, and thou shalt have no superiors. The grave requires no marshal.
My 'Sam Gamgee' is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognised as so far superior to myself.
Never descend to the ways of those above you.
One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.
It is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior.
In the bureaucratic machine of socialism the way toward promotion is not achievement but the favor of the superiors.
I have discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds.
