Quotes About Hubris

I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.

Oh, it's too bad!—really, men are tiresome when they think they know everything!

Ruthlessly she looked for the dark smudges of fear and arrogance and suspicion and hubris and eradicated them. She wiped them out with ideas of how she wanted to be, her own self-image she wanted to cultivate: understanding, supportive, confident. Not as easy to include those qualities in herself as it was to fall into selfishness.

Humanity has become a lonely race, and dangerously arrogant in our solitude.

El orgullo nunca está lejos de la caída.

I have always despised the capitalist greed and imperialist hubris that have motivated it.

All civilisations have a tendency toward narcissism, and the stronger the civilisation, the more clearly this tendency will appear. It spurs civilisations into conflict with others, triggering their arrogance and lust for domination.This always involves contempt for Others.

Mas o homem que nos atos e palavras se deixa dominar por vão orgulho sem recear a obra da justiça e não cultua propriamente os deuses está fadado a doloroso fim, vítima da arrogância criminosa que o induziu a desmedidos ganhos, a sacrilégios, à loucura máxima de profanar até as coisas santas.

Arrogance follows distribution strength.

One more such victory and we are undone.

The amount of success it takes for leaders to become overconfident isn't terribly large.

Nothing fails like success when you rely on it too much.

The top line is that hubris is a disease that comes from success.

Is it not natural that the madman, ignorant of his folly, should attempt things beyond his power?

A man who lifts his chin in pride will fail to see the chasm at his feet.

MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada.

The stench of self-satisfaction is becoming quite suffocating. If you mean to kill me, blast me to a cinder now and let's be done,

Fear was born of arrogance. Of a belief that everything was not the will of God, and could be changed.

Vanity is of no value

15 "General ideas and great conceit are always a fair way to bring about terrible misfortune.

The fool,fixed in his folly,may think He can turn the wheel on which he turns.

And Englishmen like posing as gods.

The Tower of Babel didn't work out well for anyone involved, but like the bulk of the Bible, that story was just a fairy tale, and a pretty boring one at that.

It was beauty killed the beast.