ARROGANCE OF POWER Definition & Meaning

arrogance of power

noun

presumption on the part of a nation that its power gives it the right to intervene in the affairs of less powerful nations.

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Origin of arrogance of power¹

First recorded in 1965–70

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In a toxic mix with the arrogance of power.

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What the great critic of Vietnam War escalation during the 1960s, Sen. William Fulbright, called “the arrogance of power.”

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“It’s the arrogance of power so the disappearance of this kind of person is commonplace and happens all the time.”

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“There is the arrogance of power,” he once said, “and what we got from punk was the power of arrogance.”

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Twelve years later, by 2003, America's rage and arrogance of power blinded the second President Bush to the realities that had constrained his father.

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