"Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom."

-- Wilfred Bion

#Arrogance Quotes #Obstruction Quotes

“sexual predators were like cockroaches. For every one you saw, there were twenty more hiding behind the walls.”
“His (Lenin's)humanitarianism was a very abstract passion. It embraced humanity in general but he seems to have had little love for, or even interest in, humanity in particular. He saw the people with whom he dealt, his comrades, not as individuals but as receptacles for his ideas. On that basis, and no other, they were judged. He judged man not by their moral qualities but by their views, or rather the degree to which they accepted his.”

Source : Paul Johnson (2013). “Modern Times: A History of the World From the 1920s to the Year 2000”, Hachette UK
“I put those people in place. I trusted them. I had no idea they would do anything like this.”
“When we lack integrity, we use power to control. When we lead with integrity, we use power to bless.”
“The wise are balanced, and the foolish are extreme.”
“The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.”
“I think that were beginning to remember that the first poets didn't come out of a classroom, that poetry began when somebody walked off of a savanna or out of a cave and looked up at the sky with wonder and said, "Ahhh." That was the first poem.”
“My father died when I was young and I was raised by my grandmother, Emma Klonjlaleh Brown. We could afford to eat chicken just once a year, on Christmas.”

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