When a man is set in authority over others, everything conspires to rob him of his sense of justice and reason.

Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but as the completion of a pattern already started.

Rusesabagina had been brought down by hubris — his deluded conviction that it was he

We have learned by sad experience that it is the nature and disposition of almost all men, as soon as they get a little authority, as they suppose, they will immediately begin to exercise unrighteous dominion.

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

It amounts to a diseased attitude - a conditioned reflex that shunts aside the independence of your minds whenever it is a question of opposing authority

By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.

It amounts to a diseased attitude — a conditioned reflex that shunts aside the independence of your minds whenever it is a question of opposing authority.

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

Obama is a case study in hubris.

By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man

Yes, he realized, if a man began to think of himself as divinely appointed, he was close to thinking of himself as God—and at that point lay insanity.

The man who establishes his argument by noise and command knows that his reason is weak.

For rebelling against every form of authority fate has punished me by making me an authority.