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| The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power. | Baron Wessenberg | |
| None are more unjust in their judgements of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves. | Charles Haddon Spurgeon | 1834-1892, British Baptist Preacher |
| There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the ARROGANCE most of us betray when we set out to ''Americanize'' him. | Charles Horton Cooley | 1864-1929, American Sociologist |
| It takes a kind of shabby ARROGANCE to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to. | Edgar Z. Friedenberg | |
| The ARROGANCE of age must submit to be taught by youth. | Edmund Burke | 1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman |
| 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 | 1869-1959, American Architect |
| None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power. | French Proverb | Sayings of French Origin |
| 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 | 1844-1900, German Philosopher |
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| 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 | 1924-1987, American Author |
| When power leads man towards ARROGANCE, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. | John F. Kennedy | 1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA |
| The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not ARROGANCE, but agony. | Lyndon B. Johnson | 1908-1973, Thirty-sixth President of the USA |
| The ''control of nature'' is a phrase conceived in ARROGANCE, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man. | Rachel Carson | 1907-1964, American Marine Biologist, Author |
| Sometimes a neighbour 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 | 1876-1947, American Author |
