Assertive Quote by Arthur Koestler

I have repeatedly stressed that the selfish impulses of man constitute a much less historic danger than his integrative tendencies. To put it in…

— Arthur Koestler

There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.

— Bob Herbert

Violence appears to be most commonly a result of threatened egotism -- that is, highly favorable views of self that are disputed by some…

— Roy Baumeister

One usually thinks people to be more dangerous than they are.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding…

— Elihu Root

It's dangerous to assert oneself.

— Jeanne Moreau

“The declining of responsibility for the self can also be hidden behind a pseudo-objectivity. A patient may make astute observations about himself and give…

— Karen Horney

There is perhaps no sort of self more subject to dangerous egotism than that which deludes itself with the notion that it is not…

— Charles Horton Cooley

There's so much more danger in someone where you really don't know what they're going to do, and you don't know what they're really…

— Jason Statham

A healthy strong ego, with plenty of self-esteem, does not feel itself threatened by every innocent remark.

— Maxwell Maltz

The less a person knows about the workings of the social institutions in his society, the more he must trust those who wield power…

— Thomas Szasz

“Two features in his personality make-up stand out as particularly pathological. The first is his ‘paranoid’ orientation toward the world. He is suspicious and…

— Truman Capote