Arrogance

Famous quotes containing the word arrogance:

“The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

“The arrogance that accompanies merit offends us even more than the arrogance of people who are lacking in merit: since merit itself offends us.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.”
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)