Quotes About Hubris

You chose her," he says. "Over me." "Over your pride." The word I use is hubris. Our word for arrogance that scrapes the stars, for violence and towering rage as ugly as the gods.

Global laissez-faire is not a conspiracy of corporate America. It is a tragedy - one of several that have occurred in the twentieth century - in which an hubristic ideology runs aground on enduring human needs that it has failed to comprehend.

the Germans, complacently sure it was uncrackable, were careless in its use.

so full of life and irresistible, end up disgraced and deposed?

Knowledge enormous makes a god of me.

The rule will often be here reiterated: financial genius is before the fall. I

I can measure the motions of bodies," Sir Isaac Newton once observed, "but I cannot measure human folly.

The rule will often be here reiterated: financial genius is before the fall.

But the virus, even as it lost some of its virulence, was not yet finished. Only weeks after the disease seemed to have dissipated, when town after town had congratulated itself on surviving it—and in some places where people had had the hubris to believe they had defeated it—after health boards and emergency councils had canceled orders to close theaters, schools, and churches and to wear masks, a third wave broke over the earth.

hubris syndrome. This syndrome is characterized by recklessness, an inattention to detail, overwhelming self-confidence and contempt for others; all of which, he observes, "can result in disastrous leadership and cause damage on a large scale." The syndrome, he continues, "is a disorder of the possession of power, particularly power which has been associated with overwhelming success, held for a period of years and with minimal constraint on the leader.

Arrogance makes one victim of self pride and inflicts with the fondness of selfishness to the degree that nothing will satisfy the arrogant except false flattery and fake praise.

I find the folly of men amusing

All those years of pain and wandering. Why? For a moment's pride. He would rather be cursed by the gods than be No one.

I see nothing but a cuckolded husband and Agamemnon's greed.

I should have known better than to call upon the gods.

I had a little pride, as I have said, and that was good. More would have been fatal.

The gods are jealous and men are fools.

OZYMANDIAS I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand

I propose a toast. Here's to being right all the time. May God and history forgive us." They all clinked glasses to that.

Imagine if every species named itself after its greatest flaw. We could name our species arrogance.

What arrogance made us think we were far enough to be safe?

We are squandering our wealth. In many respects, to the extent that we persist in our imperial delusions, we're also going to squander our freedom...

"It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words.

You haf too much Ego in your Cosmos