Hidebound Quotes (3 quotes)

“Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!”
― Émile Zola, The Masterpiece

tags: hidebound, reactionary, right

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“Being bigheaded can be as irritating and as dangerous as being small-minded.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: above-oneself, aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, arrogance, arrogant, bigheaded, bigoted, bigotry, blinkered, close-minded, cocksure, cocky, complacent, conceit, conceited, conservative, danger, dangerous, dyed-in-the-wool, full-of-oneself, funny, hidebound, hilarious, humor, humorous, humour, illiberal, inflexible, insular, intolerant, inward-looking, irritate, irritating, irritation, joke, jokes, mean-spirited, myopic, narrow-minded, parochial, petty, pleased-with-oneself, prejudiced, provincial, puffed-up, satire, self-important, self-satisfied, set-in-one-s-ways, shortsighted, small-minded, small-town, smug, too-big-for-one-s-boots, too-big-for-one-s-britches, uncharitable, unimaginative, vain, vainglorious, vanity

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“From what the Oxford scholar [TE Lawrence] had seen, military culture was a world of hidebound careerists looking for a knighthood or their next medal, and of underlings loath to question the powerful, with countless thousands dying as a result.”
― Scott Anderson, Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East

tags: bureaucracy, careerism, hidebound, musclebound, outdated, self-serving, sycophant, toadying, unimaginative

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