Quotes About Arrogance

I think the worst way to go is to have somebody think they speak for God. If you look at history, every nation that has operated as if it spoke for God has become violently destructive.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.

The point that I think myself to be so terribly clever is the precise point at which I am beginning to think myself to be god-like, which causes me to become God-less.

Where there is 'egoism', there is no God. Where there is God, there is no 'egoism'.

There was nothing more dangerous than people convinced of their own good intentions.

Snobs look down on people, and I look down on everyone. Not in a snooty, classist way - I mean because I'm better than everyone. I don't give a s**t about good manners.

There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.

I could puke on myself and still be good looking.

the best of all good friends is pride.

Only a person who considers himself too good for you is good enough.

I don't know how a lot of these nations existed as long as they have till we could get some of our people around and show 'em how to be good and pure like us.

There are simply no public figures today who so challenge the elite business and government establishment and so champion the working class as Jimmy Hoffa did almost daily and with arrogance.

You just can't have a position where some pumped up bunyip potentate dismisses an elected government.

Whom the gods would destroy, they first subsidize.

Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government.

It is an in, a grave evil and a disturbance of the right order, for a larger and higher organisation, to arrogate to itself functions which can be performed efficiently by smaller and lower bodies.

I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, 'Wow, I'm really great-looking.'... I think I'm the greatest, anyway.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.

I said I was the greatest, not the smartest.

His head was turned by too great success.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adversity is a natural part of being human. It is the height of arrogance to prescribe a moral code or health regimen or spiritual practice as an amulet to keep things from falling apart.