Quotes About Hubris

This is the very structure of sports journalism: deification and damnation, death and resurrection, failure and redemption. You succeed so you can falter so you can succeed again. We need a rise and a fall. We need hubris and retribution and recovery.

So removed had the British now become from their Indian subjects, and so dismissive were they of Indian opinion, that they had lost all ability to read the omens around them or to analyse their own position with any degree of accuracy. Arrogance and imperial self-confidence had diminished the desire to seek accurate information or gain any real knowledge of the state of the country.

Empire that was so magnificently strong, so confident in its own strength and brilliance and

unless restrained by checks and guarantees. There is an insolence of wealth, as there is an insolence of rank. A plutocracy might be even far worse than an aristocracy. Aristocrats

The kinna man woulda got two complimentary tickets for the Titanic.

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

Arrogance wasn't the same thing as stupidity, but it tended to have similar results.

The author describes megalomania as seen in Chairman Mao by saying that what he was familiar with, he was really familiar with. This zeal moved the megalomaniac with a complete lack of appreciation for what he DID NOT know.

Godzilla lovers to this day still wonder precisely what attracts them. Part of the appeal is the surprising sophistication in what seems at first glance to be simple-minded Saturday matinee fare. In the wreckage left in the wake of this awesome beast lies the tattered remains of human hubris, a moral lesson left smoldering in the ruins. As series producer Tomoyuki Tanaka put it, "As long as the arrogance of human beings exists, Godzilla will survive.

Dear me, I believe I am becoming a god. An emperor ought at least to die on his feet.

Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.

Woe is me. Me thinks I'm turning into a god.

Well, it's like that myth about the hero. He made wings out of wax so he could fly, but when he got too close to the Sun, to God, the wax melted and he crashed to the ground.

For God hates utterly the bray of bragging tongues.

Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one.

Death is God's way of telling you not to be such a wise guy.

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

You ask me if I have a God complex? Let me tell you something — I am God.

It is sort of a disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out.

We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God.

Many presidents have believed in God, but Donald Trump evidently believes that he is God.

Only a fool took a remote from a god.

Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor.

I think the worst way to go is to have somebody think they speak for God. If you look at history, every nation that has operated as if it spoke for God has become violently destructive.