inferiority quotes

I can never suppose this country so far lost to all ideas of self-importance as to be willing to grant America independence; if that could ever be adopted, I shall despair of this country being ever preserved froma state George of inferiority, and consequently falling into a very low class among the European states.

-George III
  Letter to Lord North,7 Mar.

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  Remark,11  Apr. Quoted in  James Boswell  The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.3.

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 LutherJr King
  Speech at the Christian leadership conference,  Atlanta, 16  Aug.

The trouble with girls is, if they like a boy, no matter how big a bastard he is, they'll say he has an inferiority complex, and if they don't like him, no matter how nice a guy he is, or how big an inferiority complex he has, they'll say he's conceited. Even smart girls do it.

-J(erome) D(avid) Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye, ch.18.