Arrogance Quotes - Page 12

• I think there is some overreach in the sense that the EPA now says: if Congress doesn't pass greenhouse emissions regulations or testing, we'll simply do it on our own. I think that's an arrogance of a regulatory body run amok.

  Rand Paul

  Running, Thinking, Body

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• Conceit and arrogance are acquired states of mind. Conquer acquired states of mind, and basic sanity can unfold. Passion and willfulness are part of false consciousness; erase false consciousness, and true consciousness will appear.

  Zicheng Hong

  Passion, Mind, Taoism

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• We certainly would be happy for more help, but not at the price of condescension and arrogance. If the Europeans believe they can afford to be less committed in Somalia, please - we can deal with it ourselves.

  Yoweri Museveni

  Believe, Condescension And, Would Be

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The Islamists had control over territory that was about half the size of the Federal Republic of Germany. For years, we have been putting the lives of our troops on the line, we have taken huge losses and the Europeans cut the budget? If money is more important than the lives of our children, what else is this than the usual arrogance and superficiality? And where is all this terror coming from? It is a result of mistakes the West committed in Pakistan and Afghanistan in the 1980s, when they armed the Islamic rebels against the Soviet troops.

  Yoweri Museveni

  Children, Mistake, Taken

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I was against impunity when it comes to human rights violations. But many of us African leaders now want to leave the Rome Statute as soon as possible because of this Western arrogance.

  Yoweri Museveni

  Rights, Rome, Leader

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It happens to all of us, I concluded that Easter Sunday morning. God simply keeps reaching down into the dirt of humanity and resurrecting us from the graves we dig for ourselves through our violence, our lies, our selfishness, our arrogance, and our addictions. And God keeps loving us back to life over and over.

  Nadia Bolz-Weber

  Easter, Morning, Lying

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• Arrogance is an exaggeration of the truth.

  Phil Heath

  Exaggeration

  Source: monstersupplements.com

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• [Doctor Strange] is difficult, he's arrogant, but he's kind of brilliant and charming and you'd think, "Yeah, I'd want him on my head if I needed brain surgery." He's good enough to warrant his arrogance and he respects other people but not when he thinks he's right and he'll just do what he deems needs to be done when he knows or feels that he's right and the problem from humility's point of view is that he is right, he's really really good at his job.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Jobs, Humility, Thinking

  "‘Doctor Strange': Benedict Cumberbatch on His Strange Journey to Becoming the Sorcerer Supreme". Interview with Haleigh Foutch, collider.com. September 27, 2016.

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• Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still missing. The central feature of pride is enmity - enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Heart, Pride, Thinking

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• The Fates are here because of supernal anger, celestial imbalance, and arrogance of men and gods that must be curbed.

  Janet Morris

  God, Fate, Destiny

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.179, Paradise Publishing

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• An artist's sensitivity to criticism is, at least in part, an effort to keep unimpaired the zest, or confidence, or arrogance, which he needs to make creation possible; or an instinct to climb through his problems in his own way as he should, and must.

  Christopher Fry

  Writing, Artist, Zest

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• Is it not arrogance or narrow-mindedness to claim that there is only one way of salvation or that the way we follow is the right way? I think not. After all, do we fault a pilot for being narrow-minded when he follows the instrument panel while landing in a rainstorm? No, we want him to remain narrowly focused!

  Billy Graham

  Thinking, Want, Pilots

  Franklin Graham, Billy Graham (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.304, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• This war has been motivated by pride or arrogance, by a desire to control oil wealth, by a desire to implant our programs. (talking about the Iraq war)

  Jimmy Carter

  War, Pride, Power

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• I feel we are so blessed to live in a country where we enjoy so many rights that other countries cannot even begin to imagine. However, it terrifies me that we seem to have lost touch with our connection to the earth. I am concerned that we have risen to such heights of arrogance in our refusal to acknowledge that our earth is rapidly changing in ways that might affect us catastrophically but instead, we hold steadfast to our belief that nothing can happen to us as a people.

  Sheryl Crow

  Country, Blessed, Rights

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• Even if someone is overcome with rage, it takes amazing arrogance to kill.

  Lisa Unger

  Overcoming, Rage, Ifs

  Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.1445, Crown

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• All the roads of the haughty man lead to arrogance!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Haughty

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• Spirituality for the most part is a mask worn by idleness, arrogance and greed.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Greed, Spirituality, Mask

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4311, Library of Alexandria

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• The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.

  Michael Kazin

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• Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.

  Umar

  Inspiring, Arrogant, Scholarship

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• Both our present science and our present technology are so tinctured with orthodox Christian arrogance toward nature that no solution for our ecologic crisis can be expected from them alone. Since the roots of our trouble are so largely religious, the remedy must also be essentially religious, whether we call it that or not. We must rethink and refeel our nature and destiny.

  Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

  Christian, Religious, Technology

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• To start blindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness, and will lead to conflict. To start blindly with a question is a sign of uncertainty and honesty, and will lead to wisdom.

  Scott Watson

  Honesty, Conflict, Statements

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• In the land of "I know," there is always competitiveness, jealousy, pretence, pride and arrogance. It is an aggressive realm - the realm of the ego. I say refuse citizenship. In the land of "I dont know," the inhabitants move without conflict and are naturally quiet, happy and peaceful. The wise stay here.

  Mooji

  Wise, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• Coming closer to home, there is so much of jealousy, pride, arrogance, and carping criticism; fathers who rise in anger over small, inconsequential things and make wives weep and children fear.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Children, Father, Home

  "The Need for Greater Kindness" by Gordon B. Hinckley, www.lds.org. May 2006.

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• What matters finally is not the world's judgment of oneself but one's own judgment of the world.... Any writer who lacks this final arrogance will not survive very long in America.

  Gore Vidal

  America, What Matters, Long

  Gore Vidal (1968). “Sex, Death, and Money”

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• Has Obama ever grown even a potted plant, much less a business, a bank, a hospital or any of the numerous other institutions whose decisions he wants to control and override? But he can talk glibly about growing the economy. Arrogance is no substitute for experience. That is why the country is in the mess it is in now.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Decision, Growing

  "Thomas Sowell: Jobs speech insulted our intelligence" by Thomas Sowell, www.ocregister.com. September 13, 2011.

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