Arrogance develops out of fear and into aggression. It does not allow people, communities or nations to envisage the possibility of openness, expansion, acceptance and peace; but generates mistrust, prejudice, myopia and war. Arrogant people (and nations) are so involved with themselves and so consumed with competing with others that they cannot credit religions, viewpoints, philosophies and lifestyles which differ from their own. It is arrogance which creates and perpetuates the miseries prolific in today's world.