Sydney Smith (1771–1845) English writer and clergyman
Lecture IX : On the Conduct of the Understanding
Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy (1849)
“Without preparedness superiority is not real superiority and there can be no initiative either. Having grasped this point, a force which is inferior but prepared, can often defeat a superior enemy by surprise attack.”
On Protracted Warfare (1938)
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Quoted in "The 900 Days: The Siege Of Leningrad" - Page 182 - by Harrison E. Salisbury - History - 2003
“I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.”
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
Speech (7 June 1923), Seanad Éireann (Irish Free Senate), on the Censorship of Films Bill. http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/S/0001/S.0001.192306070006.html
“A general is not easily overcome who can form a true judgment of his own and the enemy's forces. Valour is superior to numbers. The nature of the ground is often of more consequence than courage. (General Maxims)”
Amplius iuuat uirtus quam multitudo.
Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus book De re militari
De Re Militari (also Epitoma Rei Militaris), Book III, "Dispositions for Action"
Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.”
Philip Wylie (1902–1971) American writer
On Americans, p. 7
Generation of Vipers (1942)
Context: But we are as other men, exactly. Of one blood, one species, one brain, one figure, one fundamental set of collective instincts, one solitary body of information, one everything. Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.
George Lincoln Rockwell (1918–1967) American politician, founder of the American Nazi Party
Interview with Alex Haley
“Many a superior brain is blockaded by inferior thoughts.”
Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957)
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 69
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) British statesman and man of letters
17 March 1748
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)