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"Arrogant" is a word that comes up often in Dogville. Even when it isn't vocalized, it is demonstrated in various ways. It is as if the film wants to show arrogance to be the main sin that troubles our world. Of course, arrogance is a form of pride, which has been given the primary slot in the list of deadly sins, so perhaps arrogance does matter.

ON ARROGANCE

Where men are the most sure and arrogant, they are usually the most mistaken.
--DAVID HUME (1711–1776)

Nobody roots for Goliath.
--WILL CHAMBERLAIN

All the people like us are We,
And everyone else is They.
--RUDYARD KIPLING (1865–1936)

Nothing is so shallow as dogmatism.
--RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803–1882)

ON ARROGANCE

Don't dare talk pretentiously—
not a word of boasting, ever!
For God knows what's going on.
He takes the measure of everything that happens.
-- 1 Samuel 2:3 (Message Bible)

The Fear-of-God means hating Evil,
whose ways I hate with a passion—
pride and arrogance and crooked talk.
--Proverbs 8:13 (Message Bible)

I'll put a full stop to the evil on earth,
terminate the dark acts of the wicked.
I'll gag all braggarts and boasters—not a peep anymore from them—
and trip strutting tyrants, leave them flat on their faces.
--Isaiah 13:11 (Message Bible)

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