“Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.”

—  Philip Wylie

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.

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