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"Much self - condemnation, thus, is a cloak for arrogance. Those who think they overcome pride by condemning themselves could well ponder Spinoza's remark, 'One who despises himself is the nearest to a proud man'. In ancient Athens, when a politician was trying to get the votes of the working class by appearing very humble in a tattered coat with big holes in it, Socrates unmasked his hypocrisy by exclaiming, 'Your vanity shows forth from every whole in your coat'."
"There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you're wrong and you can't face it, the other is when you're right and nobody else can face it."
"The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos."
"Let your pretence of arrogance grow big as a Dinosaur, so that the fake intellectuals start to realize their true inferiority in front of you."
Explore more quotes by Theodore Bikel
"If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to."
"The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before."
"By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul."
"I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words."
"I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family."
"In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event."
"Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission."
"I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation."
"Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route."
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