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Letter "A" » arrogance
«The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.»
Author: Cyrano De Bergerac
| About:
Arrogance,
Nature
| Keywords:
afire, apples, arrogance, cabbages, conceivable, human head, insufferable, ripen, set afire, solely
«Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.»
«Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.»
«The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.»
«Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.»
Author: Emma Goldman
| Keywords:
arrogance, artificially, conceit, conceits, dignity, falsehoods, increases, maintained, network, patriotism, robs, self respect, superstition, The Network, with conceit
«The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Christianity
| Keywords:
arrogance, Christian Churches, hostile, humility, in common, in name, opposites, penitence, rigidity, submissiveness, The Christian, usurpation, utterly
«The world is burning in the fire of desire, in greed, arrogance and excessive ego.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
| Keywords:
arrogance, burning, burning in, ego, excessive, greed, the fire
«The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
| About:
Revolution,
Science
| Keywords:
arrogance, centrality, convictions, cosmos, dethronement, feature, include, pedestal, pedestals, previous, revolutions, scientific
«The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.»
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Power
| Keywords:
agony, arrogance, in the United States, this century
«Their blindness and arrogance are as solid as an iron mountain»
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