“When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“Man compared to nature is a woman.”
George Otero
“No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility”
Simone de Beauvoir
“People wrapped up in themselves make very small packages.”
Jessica Kennedy
“It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt”
Thomas Paine
“Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.”
Sydney J. Harris
“For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the denial falters in the face of evidence on every hand. In every tuft of grass, in every bird, in every opening bud, there it is.”
Hal Borland
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