Hubris Quotes - page 2

I've heard stories about authors filled with this kind of Lotto-winner hubris. I'm a Dutch boy from the Midwest. We don't have hubris. (Chris Van Allsburg)
I think hubris comes from insecurity. Confidence comes in a more rooted sense; part of being confident is being able to say, "I can be really shitty," and to accept that. But also not to crumble under it. View quote
Bill Skarsgard
We've seen the hubris. And now we're seeing the scandals. View quote
David Gergen
We know that second terms have historically been marred by hubris and by scandal. View quote
David Gergen
Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility. View quote
Dejan Stojanovic
Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in 2012. And so gloomy Democrats, check your despair; gleeful Republicans, watch the hubris. View quote
Jon Meacham
I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means. View quote
Ian Williams
Most visions of extraterrestrial life are actually steeped in human hubris. The fictional extraterrestrials of 'Star Trek' or a hundred other space operas are less alien than many of my neighbors. And funny, the ones running the place are mostly WASPish men. View quote
Nathan Myhrvold
Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that's when you learn. View quote
Moby
The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone - I think it's narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer. View quote
James Woods
We're all victims of our own hubris at times. (Kevin Spacey)
Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility. View quote
Tom Hiddleston
Where I grew up - we started out in Oklahoma and then moved to Missouri - it was considered hubris to talk about yourself. And the downside of that was that ideas rarely got exchanged, or true feelings. View quote
Brad Pitt
Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris. View quote
Thucydides
Life did what it did, purposelessly, and only humans strove to impose a meaning where no meaning was needed. She viewed herself as random flotsam upon the face of the deep. Without a religious foundation, she wasn't bothered by any questions of an insult to God or the hubris of Prometheus that might have arisen. View quote
Justina Robson
I assume we can defeat Hussein without great cost to our side (God forgive me if that is hubris). The problem is what happens after we win. The country is 20 percent Kurd, 20 percent Sunni and 60 percent Shiite. Can you say, 'Horrible three-way civil war?' View quote
Molly Ivins
The link between Betty Mahmoody's "Not Without My Daughter” and Azar Nafisi's [Reading Lolita in Tehran] is the link between two phases and modes of labor migration, the moral salvation that "the West” provides, and imperial hubris. What is paramount in all of these is the denigration of local cultures as the site of actual or potential resistance to imperial domination. There cannot be any politics of resistance, aesthetics of emancipation, or prose and poetry of agential autonomy in history for people around the world-nothing except a Starbucks Coffee version of the so-called "Western classics” to go and save them. Interview with Znet. View quote
Hamid Dabashi
We can and must deter terror; we can and must conduct surveillance; we can and must find terror cells and plotters; and we need to fight them aggressively in the battlefield abroad and prosecute them carefully under the law if they are citizens at home. But the zeal and arrogance of Bush and Cheney have done this at the expense of the heart and soul of Western jurisprudence and constitutional liberty. They must not get away with it. Our inheritance is too precious to squander in a fit of panic, sadism and hubris. View quote
Andrew Sullivan
"I nominate myself” means "I won't follow.” This isn't hubris: it is simply the fruit of your decision to live on your own terms. View quote
Eric Maisel
Each one of these social generations-from the ‘50s, from the ‘60s, from the ‘70s, from the Reagan era, from now-thinks of its social aesthetic as definitive. In fact, they are all in a process: encouraged toward, and beyond, hubris, by demography. View quote
George W. S. Trow
Obama is a case study in hubris. (Ilana Mercer)
The brutality of our corporate executioners grows by the day. They will stop at nothing, including wholesale murder, to consolidate power and amass greater profits. Blinded by hubris, driven by greed, disdainful of democracy, foolishly believing their wealth will protect them, they will herd us over the cliff unless they are overthrown. View quote
Chris Hedges