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Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.
Alfred Adler
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Alfred Adler
Austrian
Psychologist
Born:
Feb 7
,
1870
Died:
May 28
,
1937
Topics
Inferiority
,
Feeling
,
Exaggerated
,
Expression
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Gerhard Richter
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Inferiority
Value
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Politicians
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Neither
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Vengeful
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Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Truth
Lie
Inferiority
Every
Society
Negroes
Remind
Accepted
Waking
Discrimination
Dominating
Them
Moment
Lives
The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.
Carter G. Woodson
Class
Book
Inferiority
Thought
Every
Studies
He
Almost
Him
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.
Carter G. Woodson
Inferiority
Others
Evidence
Possess
Gifts
Superiority
Moreover
Merely
Different
Which
Race
Races
Certain
Each
We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority.
Gary Zukav
Jealousy
Anger
Inferiority
World
Long
Power
Pain
Changing
Changing The World
Our
Futility
See
Able
Superiority
Pursuit
Outward
Look
Powerlessness
Inward
Parts
Becoming
Escape
Trying
Controlled
Personalities
Dismantle
Us
Vindictiveness
External
Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.
Simone de Beauvoir
Man
Woman
Inferiority
Society
Destroying
Superiority
Only
She
Male
Inferior
Being
Away
When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.
Simone de Beauvoir
Inferiority
Become
Situation
Fact
Individual
He
Does
Inferior
Kept
We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
Alfred Adler
Inferiority
Sign
Bad
Must
Temper
Interpret
To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
Alfred Adler
Inferiority
Human Being
Feeling
Own
Possess
Has-Been
Constantly
More
Emotional
Powerful
Towards
Greater
Been
Human
Being
Experienced
Which
Urge
Means
Agitation
Conquest
Violent
Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
Elbert Hubbard
Inferiority
Fear
Thought
Admitted
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