| The principal cause of ruination is wanton excess through the sin of hubris. |
| This led us to man's hubris, and its particular threat to the Land of the Rising Sun. |
| That kind of business-as-usual strategy would have been considered hubris or just plain stupid a decade ago, but the sands have shifted. |
| In 1818 Mary Shelley published Frankenstein, a warning that we would be destroyed by our own technological hubris. |
| I have invoked Shelley as an epigraph because he identified the dangers of hubris and vanity when desire is exhausted and over-idealized. |
| His enemies prefer to see him as a victim, once again, of his own arrogance, of hubris, and an addiction to taking himself too seriously. |
