Quotes About Arrogance

lot of them say it couldn't happen here, but they're wrong.

They wouldn't be so cocky if they knew what me and the moon had going.

Pero, sea inocente o arrogante, sagrada o profana, la ignorancia es la ignorancia y toda ignorancia destruye la biosfera.

All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.

The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.

All great power has to do to destroy itself is persist in trying to do the impossible.

Nothing is more arrogant than the weakness which feels itself supported by power.

There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods.

Power always sincerely, conscientiously, de très bon foi, believes itself right. Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak.

We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption.

Oftentimes, the more power and prestige a person achieves, the more arrogant a person can become.

I don't hate things, but I'm turned off by arrogance. I also don't like power for the sake of power.

Fortune, to show us her power in all things, and to abate our presumption, seeing she could not make fools wise, has made them fortunate.

Those who live in the best cliffs think they are better than us. That is always man's attitude when he has power.

So you see, in the end, it is nearly certain that the power of prediction must triumph over the arrogance of elegance.

The tolerance power is the mother of egoism!

It is the curse of the powerful to be blind to their own faults.

Give little people a little power, and it goes straight to their ugly, little heads. -Foot talks about authority

How foolish to believe we are more powerful than the sea or the sky.

Leopold, like most men of power and prestige, was not so much interested in listening to what others had to say as he was in having an audience.

My question is whether America can overcome the fatal arrogance of power.

To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of arrogance.

Damned indecision and cursed pride.