Egotism Quotes - Page 10

• The sources of human problems have to do with egotism, ‘I.’

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Problem, Source, Humans

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• The modern position seems only another manifestation of egotism, which develops when man has reached a point at which he will no longer admit the rights to existence of things not of his own contriving.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Men, Rights, Conservative

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.154, University of Chicago Press

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• It's my world, I demand my respect. Give me your girl or get slapped in your neck.

  Big Pun

  Girl, Giving, World

  Song: Laughing at You, Album: Yeeeah Baby, 2000

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• Larger than life is your fiction in a universe made up of one.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Fiction, Larger Than Life, Life Is

  Song: Drifting, Album: Afterglow

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• Yo' Momma, I'm a ghetto super star.

  Ludacris

  Stars, Ghetto, Momma

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• How dare you ever in ya life walk past me without acknowledging their man as God.

  LL Cool J

  Past, Men, Dare

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• I do things my way and I pay a high price.

  John Mellencamp

  Pay, Way, High Prices

  Song: Minutes To Memories, Album: Scarecrow

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• I didn't mean to turn you on.

  Cherrelle

  Mean, Turns

  Song: I Didn't Mean to Turn You On, Album: Fragile

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• The heart-throb for the welfare of humanity therefore passes into the ravings of an insane self-conceit, into the fury of consciousness to preserve itself from destruction; and it does this by expelling from itself the perversion which it is itself, and by striving to look on it and express it as something else.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Heart, Self, Humanity

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, A.V. Miller (tr.) (1998). “Phenomenology of Spirit”, p.226, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• I am an expert witness because I say I am.

  Don Henley

  Experts, Witness

  Song: The Garden of Allah

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• Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.

  Paul Simon

  Wall, Believe, Bricks

  Song: Gumboots, Album: Graceland

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• Those fine eyes of hers had a disconcertingly direct gaze, and very often twinkled in a manner disturbing to male egotism. She had common-sense too, and what man wanted the plainly matter-of-fact, when he could enjoy instead Sophia's delicious folly?

  Georgette Heyer

  Eye, Men, Common Sense

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• Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.

  Karen Armstrong

  Religious, Giving Up, People

  "FINDING MY RELIGION / Part 1: World-renowned religious scholar Karen Armstrong talks about today's religious conflicts and how the past can help". Interview with David Ian Miller, www.sfgate.com. April 10, 2006.

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• Our self-love is mortified, when we think our opinions, and even our tastes, customs, and dresses, either arraigned or condemned;as, on the contrary, it is tickled and flattered by approbation.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Love Is, Thinking, Self

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.110

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• I ain't saying that I'm better than you, but maybe I am.

  Randy Newman

  Better Than You

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• God will grovel before me, God will crawl at my feet.

  Marilyn Manson

  Feet, Gods Will

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• ... we performers are monsters. We are a totally different, far-out race of people. I totally and completely admit, with no qualmsat all, my egomania, my selfishness, coupled with a really magnificent voice.

  Leontyne Price

  Art, Voice, Race

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• Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all—self-centeredness in its purest form.

  Rick Yancey

  Self, Centeredness, Pity

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• Fortunate indeed are those in which there is combined a little good and a little bad, a little knowledge of many things outside their own callings, a capacity for love and a capacity for hate, for such as these can look with tolerance upon all, unbiased by the egotism of him whose head is so heavy on one side that all his brains run to that point.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Running, Hate, Tolerance

  Edgar Rice Burroughs (2015). “The Complete Science Fiction Novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs (Illustrated): A Princess of Mars, Llana of Gathol, The Gods of Mars, Beyond Thirty, The Warlord of Mars, The Chessmen of Mars, The Master Mind of Mars, Pirates of Venus, The Monster Men and many more”, p.620, e-artnow

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• Believe it or not, I swear I'm just a human being.

  Nelly

  Believe, Humans, Swear

  Song: Splurge, Album: Nellyville

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• Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Pride, Ego, Etc

  Swami Vivekananda (1926). “The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited”

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• Pay no attention to pop culture, for it is what poisons our minds and divides our children. Materialism promotes negative values and egotism. Eliminate all of it. It is the plague of Big Business.

  Suzy Kassem

  Children, Mind, Pay

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• Leadership means firmness, not harshness or bullying; understanding, not weakness; justice, not irresponsible freedom; humaneness, not intolerance; generosity, not selfishness; pride, not egotism.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Bullying, Mean, Pride

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• Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things "which cannot be shared," and if they raise themselves to a point where they adopt an abstract principle superior to their egotisms. In other words, it can only be obtained by a betterment of human morality.

  Julien Benda

  Men, Principles, Morality

  Julien Benda (1969). “The Treason of the Intellectuals”

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• Think of the egotism of a man who believes that an infinite being wants his praise!

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1173, Library of Alexandria

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