5 sentences with “inferiors”

Even nobles who had joined the nobility in the last generation tended to cultivate a practised hatred of mere merchants, their social inferiors.

Gobineau's Essay asserted that the European nobility had once been an immaculate "pure" example of a superior race legitimately ruling over social inferiors born of an inferior race.

According to Gobineau, over time, however, the nobility had foolishly mixed with these inferiors, diluting the precious racial characteristics that had sustained the nobility's rule.

The Slavs were also "racial inferiors" and "subhumans" according to the Nazi racial hierarchy, and therefore the civilian populations of the Slavic countries were either killed outright or subjected to treatment tantamount to murder.

The Greeks traded with all their neighbours and knew perfectly well that the Persians and the Egyptians and the Phoenicians, among others, were not their inferiors in learning, art or political organisation, but the fact remains that they were not Greeks either.