| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 60143f1 | There are proven ways to win the loyalty of tough, strong, ferocious men: play on the certain knowledge of their superiority, the mystique of secret covenant, the esprit of shared suffering. | leadership insularity pride | Frank Herbert | |
| f363871 | Travel was a species of warfare. | insularity openness skepticism | E.M. Forster | |
| 44709be | "The limitation prompting folly " was an attitude of superiority so dense as to be impenetrable." | prejudice racism insularity pride | Barbara W. Tuchman |