Quotes About Hubris

As Plato:) There is nothing superstitious about forcing bad consequences for the hubris of paternalistic utopianism. Humanity should never be frozen into a vision of the best. A creative society must be willing to tolerate some degree of instability because creativity is inherently unstable.

They're us!They've repopulated the world, and now they've achieved the same state of idiocy they were in before, ready to blow themselves up all over again. Great, isn't it? That's the human race!

We humans give ourselves such airs, even aggrandizing our poky little 'sins' to the level of cosmic significance!

Overconfidence is a powerful force.

He was one of those who manage to combine almost total failure with breathtaking arrogance

Too much power made people arrogant and unfeeling. It turned them cruel. It blinded them to right and wrong.

Power and wealth too often made folk lose their good judgement. It made them cruel and unthinking.

ego —! There's nothing more powerful when it comes to destroying a man, my friend. Nothing else that would assure his swift and inglorious descent into Pathalam, the goriest underworld!

Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.

Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance.

Surfeit begets insolence, when prosperity comes to a bad man.

A garden is a symbol of man's arrogance, perverting nature to human ends.

Great men help dazzle the people; after that, they dazzle themselves even more dangerously.

When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble

Haughtiness is the high heel shoe of the low men!

Such hubris could only come from a man's mouth.

A small amount of power corrupts a small man absolutely. A little knowledge is dangerous to a little man. To a great man only great knowledge is dangerous.

He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon.' Gothos' Folly

Drink never made a man better, but it has made many a man think he was better.

An assembly of great men is the greatest fool upon earth.

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

But then, like George Michael in a men's bathroom, I got cocky.

Only gods can safely risk perfection ... it's a dangerous thing for a man.

Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!