arrogance quotes

• Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty -- necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels. (James Baldwin) [vanity/religion/faith]
• The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth. (Edmund Burke) [vanity/age/youth]
• Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves. (Willa Cather) [vanity]
• The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over. (Germaine Greer) [brotherhood/vanity/love]
• Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [vanity/more/vanity]
• Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasions to change. (Frank Lloyd Wright) [life/vanity/humility/vanity]
• You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named 'Bush', 'Dick', and 'Colon.' Need I say more? (Chris Rock) [crazy/vanity/war/men]
• In their arrogance, ABC wanted a number-one show. They wouldn't accept losing that time slot. (Dirk Benedict) [vanity/time]
• We wanted to do a film called The Hellfire Club, and we set it up to try to achieve that, really. With all our arrogance and bravado we wanted to make films our way - we were lucky to be making them at all really. But we wanted to do them our way - we want character driven work, not plot-driven. (Ewan McGregor) [film/vanity/character]
• Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation. (Warren Beatty) [being/vanity/movie/actors]

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