Quotes About Hubris

They didn't come to crush the city. They came to crush the hubris of its king." "That must have hurt," Oates said. Umber pinched the bridge of his nose. "Hubris means arrogance, you great buffoon.

Matt Smith?" I said. "Really? You are not the Doctor, Bran. At your age, it is important to keep a lookout for excessive hubris.

The American Century is over. Pax Americana has come to a close. Gone now is all the hubristic chatter of an American Empire. Gone is the "unipolar world" where the United States was the undisputed hegemonic power.

What a sad thing men are. Can't do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can't build something up without tearing it down. It ain't the Spackle that drove us to the end. It was ourselves.

El orgullo es absurdo, pero es una fuerza poderosa.

If there is one thing I will not abide, it is the folly of a willful pride.

Tombs is for feckless tits who can't chew their own food,

Pride is a foolish thing, but it is a powerful force.

Damn little gadflies think they can buy the sun out the sky, don't they?" "This particular one could probably afford it," I said grimly. "And the moon too, if he wanted the matched set to use as bookends.

Pride not only precedes a fall, but often hangs around a while longer to see what other damage it can do.

But sometimes the strong mistake their strength

Less than two centuries later, the Macedonian Greek Alexander the Great conquered Egypt, completing this task in a matter of months, but remaining long enough to found the city of Alexandria, whose site he selected in 331 BC at what was then the western mouth of the Nile delta. After this, in what appeared to be a characteristic act of hubris, but was in fact an attempt to win over the local priesthood, Alexander sacrificed to the sacred bull Apis and had himself crowned pharaoh.

The very rich only admire themselves.

The Earth is littered with the ruins of empires that once belived they were eternal.

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Blindness and madness punish the hubris of the man who possesses and employs a faculty for knowledge not given to other men.

By virtue of its unbounded aggression, Roman imperialism was ultimately responsible for its own destruction.

Perhaps the simplest way of describing the situation would be to say that, two and a half thousand years ago in the West, we were given a gift — and in our childishness we threw away the instructions for how to use it. We felt we knew what we were playing with. And, as a result, western civilization may soon be nothing but an experiment that failed.

The national anthem of Hell is 'I did it my way.

I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”

We have heard of Moabís pomposity, his exceeding pride and conceit, his overflowing arrogance. But his boasting is empty.

“Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre that this is what the Lord GOD says: Your heart is proud, and you have said, ëI am a god; I sit in the seat of gods in the heart of the sea.í Yet you are a man and not a god, though you have regarded your heart as that of a god.

the king exclaimed, “Is this not Babylon the Great, which I myself have built by the might of my power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?”