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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 A. Baldwin

  Spiritual, Atheism, Christianity

  "Letter from a Region of My Mind" by James A. Baldwin in "The New Yorker" (November 17, 1962), republished as "Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region in My Mind" in James A. Baldwin "The Fire Next Time", 1963.

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• You know the world's gone mad when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the USA of arrogance and the Germans don't want to go to war !

  Chris Rock

  War, Rapper, Usa

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• With relish, Thomas More thus sketches Richard's character: He was close and secret, a deep dissembler, lowly of countenance, arrogant of heart, outwardly companionable where he inwardly hated, not hesitating to kiss whom he thought to kill.

  Richard III of England

  Character, Heart, Kissing

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• Language became a colorless and as indistinct as the business suit which is now worm by everyone, by the scholar, by the businessman, by the professional killer. Being accustomed to a dry and dreary norm and sees in it an obvious sign of arrogance and aggression; viewing authority with almost religious awe he gets into a frenzy when he sees someone pluck the beard of his favorite prophet.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Religious, Dry, Killers

  "Science in a Free Society". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1978.

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• The idea that we are "stewards of the earth" is another symptom of human arrogance. Imagine yourself with the task of overseeing your body's physical processes. Do you understand the way it works well enough to keep all its systems in operation? Can you make your kidneys function? Can you control the removal of waste? Are you conscious of the blood flow through your arteries, or the fact that you are losing a hundred thousand skin cells a minute?

  Lynn Margulis

  Cells, Blood, Ideas

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• The world is going to change, whether we like it or not. We can participate in that change or we can be the victims of that change. In a way. Either we go in our stupidity ignorance, and arrogance, bring more destruction in a way, or we're forced to change.

  Hamid Drake

  Ignorance, Stupidity, Way

  Source: the-attic.net

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• My dogs forgive anger in me, the arrogance in me, the brute in me. They forgive everything I do before I forgive myself.

  Guy De la Valdene

  Friendship, Dog, Forgiving

  Guy de la Valdene (2007). “For a Handful of Feathers”, p.85, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Don't be arrogant, because arrogance kills curiosity and passion.

  Mina Bissell

  Motivation, Inspiration, Passion

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• Watch your attitude. I don't mean to sound like so much of an old head, but there is another generation behind me, out there, doing it now. I find that, with the whole hip-hop generation, there's a lot of attitude. Whether it's confidence or arrogance or whichever, I will always say to a young guy, “Nobody wants to work with an asshole.” You know, you can still be a great player. You can still play all of the baddest licks in the world. But if you don't have a good attitude, nobody's going to work with you.

  Christian McBride

  Attitude, Mean, Player

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• I tell my kids in the Academy at Newcastle to watch Henry. He plays with such a swagger, not an arrogance, and that is a great quality. He always looks so comfortable. You talk about cars going from 0 to 60 in a matter of seconds, and he is like that. He just explodes. I could sit there for hours and watch him.

  Peter Beardsley

  Kids, Play, Car

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• You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Glowing, Color, Pleasure

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.57, Cosimo Classics

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• I don't like people being rude. Bad manners and arrogance make me cross. People making others feel uncomfortable. And I really don't like it in restaurants when people are rude or patronising to waiters. I feel like saying, 'They're not your slave'. But my knees only shake around once every five years. You're safe, don't worry.

  Alan Titchmarsh

  Years, Worry, People

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I found very interesting - trying to separate the different facets of Superman in that way. When you're aware of how people perceive you, you can't always remain true to yourself, and that was an interesting thing for me to apply to the character as well - exploring these different facets of his personality while having certain bits of it stripped away. The arrogance of a person who would have the kind of power that Superman does - we see that in The Return of Superman. Superman is not that character, but since he has all of those powers, he has that capacity for arrogance.

  Henry Cavill

  Character, People, Interesting

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2013.

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• There is a 'patrician arrogance' to James Taylor that accounts in part for his popularity while it at the same time explains the critical resistance to his work.

  Jon Landau

  Resistance, Popularity, Accounts

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• We just never know. We think we do. We think we have life figured out, and in our arrogance we become hard. But life has a way of humbling us, of softening us.

  Philip Gulley

  Thinking, Way, Humbling

  Philip Gulley (2009). “Home to Harmony”, p.35, Zondervan

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• It is important that you strive for humility, but not humiliation, for a cool, level-headed confidence, not a stiff, delusional arrogance.

  Michael Johnson

  Inspirational, Humility, Important

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• It is the pure arrogance of the newly rich and the newly powerful to think content is easy.

  John Landgraf

  Powerful, Thinking, Rich

  "Yahoo Rolls the Dice on TV". www.nytimes.com. April 13, 2014.

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• I know that you don't know, but you don't know that you don't know! By that I mean there are three reasons why individuals and businesses fail: 1. Arrogance 2. Arrogance 3. Arrogance.

  Harvey Mackay

  Mean, Three, Reason Why

  "Harvey Mackay Book Interview : The Mackay MBA of selling in the real world". Interview with David Dalka, www.daviddalka.com. November 29, 2011.

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• All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and an appeal from general laws to private judgment: he, therefore, who differs form others without apparent advantage, ought not to be angry if his arrogance is punished with ridicule; if those whose example he superciliously overlooks, point him out to derision, and hoot him back again into the common road.

  Samuel Johnson

  Law, Practice, Rejection

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson...”, p.178

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• Let there be an end to the arrogance of the big powers who miss no opportunity to put the rights of the people in question. Africa's absence from the club of those who have the right to veto is unjust and should be ended.

  Thomas Sankara

  Opportunity, Rights, People

  Thomas Sankara (1988). “Thomas Sankara speaks: the Burkina Faso revolution, 1983-87”, Pathfinder Pr

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• Seek the truth in all fields, and in that search you will need at least three virtues: courage, zest and modesty. The ancients put that thought in the form of a prayer. They said, “From the cowardice that shrinks from new truth, from the laziness that is content with half truth, from the arrogance that thinks it has all truth – O God of truth, deliver us.

  Hugh B. Brown

  Prayer, Thinking, Zest

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• Many Christians are either woefully deficient in their knowledge of Scripture or noticeably devoid of any experience of God's power. The Lord never intended this for His people. We have all seen firsthand the joyless intellectual arrogance the absence of spiritual power can produce, as well as the fanatical emotional excess that comes from the lack of theological integrity.

  Sam Storms

  Christian, Spiritual, Integrity

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• In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world. Instead of celebrating your dynamic union and seeking to partner with you to meet common challenges, there have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive.

  Barack Obama

  Europe, America, Appreciate

  Barack Obama's Remarks at Strasbourg Town Hall, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. April 3, 2009.

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• It's not arrogance, it's just destiny.

  Randy Orton

  Destiny, Wwe

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• The biggest turn-off for me is people who think the world of themselves. Arrogance is not a sexy quality, and it really gets on my nerves.

  Pixie Lott

  Sexy, Thinking, People

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