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Superior virtue must be the fruit of superior intelligence.

There's an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we're morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that's a bit dangerous.

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.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.