“All empires become arrogant. It is their nature.”
“The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.”
“Privilege becomes arrogance. Arrogance promotes injustice. The seeds of ruin blossom.”
“It is my opinion that humans are largely what they make of themselves; in other words, "human nature" is not so much an empirical reality as a process of self-construction. This means that if people become what they think they are, what they think they are is exceedingly important.”
“All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.”
“a grin that wasn't natural, and that combined in a strange way affection and arrogance, the arrogance of the idealist who doesn't realize how easily he can be fooled.”