Mikhail Bakunin Quotes

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

He spoils his undoubted talents by his excessive assurance, his contempt for other people's point of view, and his attitude of a king in exile.

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

Washington is a city of arrogance.

We thought because we had power, we had wisdom.

I had this attitude, that Silicon Valley obnoxious attitude, that I know what I'm doing, and the rest was going to be pretty easy.

Arrogance is, as it were, a solicitation on the part of one seeking honor for followers, whom he thinks he is entitled to treat with contempt.

Hubris, arrogance, is just one step ahead of loss of integrity, because if you think you're better than other people, you know more, then you're going to think, as many leaders have, that the rules don't apply to them - so they lose their integrity.

I hate elitists. I hate conceited people. I hate pompous people.

What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.

By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw.

Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head.

One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

I feel arrogant trying to give people advice.

There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.

I'm out of here, I'm better than all of you.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don't give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

I think I know it all, relatively speaking.

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

Pride and vanity, the opposites of humility, can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilitating disease can destroy our physical health.

You have decided that other clergy all know nothing and you alone know everything, and have sought to use your knowledge not to build but to destroy so that on these grounds we may believe that St. Gregory, whose name you have claimed for yourself, was prophesying when he said: "The mind of the prelate is often exalted by the abundance of his subjects".

Unbridled arrogance is worse than pride; for if pride will not break a superior, arrogance will not brook and equal.

an intellectual arrogance and unconscious assumption of superiority.