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"Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human arrogance off one pedestal after another of our previous conviction about our own self-importance."
"If the wine drinker has a deep gentleness in him, he will show that when drunk. But if he has hidden anger and arrogance, those appear."
"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."
"Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility."
"I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush."
"Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance; and be ready to let it go."
"It is a measure of the arrogance of nations - but especially of the nuclear-weapon states - to assert that a nuclear-weapons-free world is impossible when, in fact, ninety-five percent of the nations of the world already are nuclear free."
"The arrogance that accompanies merit offends us even more than the arrogance of people who are lacking in merit: since merit itself offends us."
"There isn't a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had had its rights."
"We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was "just human"."
"I don't hate things, but I'm turned off by arrogance. I also don't like power for the sake of power."
"The Negro cannot win the respect of his oppressor by acquiescing; he merely increases the oppressor's arrogance and contempt."
"It is extreme arrogance for one to think he...and it's usually he, is the only one who can govern his country and nobody else can do it."
