Arrogance Power Quotes

#1. When it comes to arrogance, power, and lack of accountability, journalists are probably the only people on the planet who make lawyers look good.

Steven Brill

#2. Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Virginia Woolf

#3. But how could Yoel, of all people, not realize that Gush Emunim, with its vision of unrestrained power and occupation, was repeating the very sin of arrogance that had led to Yom Kippur?

Yossi Klein Halevi

#4. My brother is undoubtedly arrogant," Tyrion Lannister replied. "My father is the soul of avarice, and my sweet sister Cersei lusts for power with every waking breath. I, however, am innocent as a little lamb. Shall I bleat for you?

George R R Martin

#5. The only thing truly within our power, may be whether or not we will behave in each moment with arrogance or reverence.

Lawrence Kushner

#6. Folly is a child of power.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#7. When I first met Tony Blair in 1996, he was open and idealistic, keen to bring a breath of fresh air to government. But something happened - was it just the arrogance of power? - that narrowed Labour's vision from purposeful reform and investment, to peevish and petulant pragmatism.

Rory Bremner

#8. The Beloved is inside you and also inside me. You know the tree is hidden inside the seed. Let your arrogance go. None of us has gone far. Inside love there is more power than we realize.

Kabir

#9. Where everyone wants to be a leader, it makes one a follower to want to be a leader, and a leader to know what to follow.

Criss Jami

#10. Four things are destroyed by the other fours: kindness by ingratitude, strength (of government) by crime, power by power and human love by arrogance.

Khwaja Abdullah Ansari

#11. The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#12. The leather community is largely anarchistic and shares a healthy distrust of power and arrogance.

Geoff Mains

#13. I am blessed to live in a democracy, not a totalitarian state. But the democracy I cherish is constantly threatened by a brand of politics that clothes avarice and the arrogance of power in patriotic and religious garb.

Parker J. Palmer

#14. When power leads man toward 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

#15. In closing, the greatest threat to peace on this earth is the arrogance of a super-power [America] that is out of control.

Louis Farrakhan

#16. There is no shame in ignorance before a higher power but there is shame in arrogance.

Ian-Anthony Finnimore

#17. True power does not need arrogance, a long beard and a barking voice. True power strangles you with silk ribbons, charm, and intelligence

Slavoj Zizek

#18. A comment with the idle arrogance common of such nobodies who have just come into a small bit of power.

Dan Simmons

#19. If as an environmentalist we are against anything ... it is against the arrogance of power and the most obcene ways it shows up, which is in greed.

John Denver

#20. The arrogance of the human mind is too fragile, as well as the patience of the human character. It is because of that, they fail to see the power of mere observation and systematic analysis.

Lionel Suggs

#21. It is the worst way that big power could act, it is arrogance, it is proudness, it is measuring of one's decision in accordance to his bigness, unfortunately, therefore lack of any wisdom ...

Siad Barre

#22. I know many people on the left are suspicious of words like Americanization. To them, it can sound like a cover for white privilege and warmongering. It suggests arrogance and groupthink. But these connotations are not fixed. It is in our power to reshape them by recalling the best of America.

Eric Liu

#23. 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

#24. I don't hate things, but I'm turned off by arrogance. I also don't like power for the sake of power.

Jordan Wolfson

#25. So you see, in the end, it is nearly certain that the power of prediction must triumph over the arrogance of elegance.

Robert Haugen

#26. All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.

Theodore Bikel

#27. I could let these dream killers kill my self-esteem,
Or use my arrogance as the steam to power my dreams.
I use it as my gas, so they say that I'm gassed,
But without it I'd be last, so I ought to laugh ...

Kanye West

#28. Some of you need a lesson in humility. While your arrogance may give you a sense of power, it may serve you better to put it aside. Those are the times you will be the light of the world.

J 'son M. Lee

#29. He also carried that whiff of unearned arrogance that seems to cling to those who crave authority for the sheer sake of power.

Blake Crouch

#30. To cope with hurt and control my fears, I grew a thick skin. Oh, the many names of power - pride, arrogance, control. I am not the frozen snow queen but a flesh and blood woman with perhaps too loving a heart, one easily hurt.

Michelle Cliff

#31. Because arrogance is born in personal vanity, arrogant people are driven without mercy. They can never get enough power to fill the soul's needs or enough respect to overcome the fear that they deserve less than they are getting.

Lewis B. Smedes

#32. This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

Joe Biden