Megalomania Quotes

• If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

  Margaret Atwood

  United States, Canada, Mental Illness

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• The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

  Bertrand Russell

  Love, Powerful, Men

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.10, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

  Queen Victoria

  Thinking, History, Important

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• Bill, we left megalomania behind a long time ago. Now we are gigalomaniacs.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Long, Bills, Internet

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• There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a desire for thrills. But the malady of our time is of those who become spies out of idealism.

  Max Lerner

  Ambition, Vanity, Spy

  Max Lerner (1959). “The unfinished country: a book of American symbols”

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• If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Fists, Pleasure, God Is Dead

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• It's this kind of wild unpredictability, megalomania, thin-skinned craziness that really has me worried, more than [Donald Trump] statements. Now, on the climate change there's just nothing to say, he's perfectly straightforward.

  Noam Chomsky

  Climate, Kind, Worried

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Murder is the apex of megalomania, the ultimate in control.

  Lucy Freeman

  Murder, Ultimate, Apex

  Lucy Freeman (1955). “"Before I Kill More ..."”

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• At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity.

  Winston Churchill

  War, World, Sanity

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

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• Americans and their desire to be novelists, the American novel should be listed in medical dictionaries alongside Megalomania and Obsessional Neuroses.

  Francine du Plessix Gray

  Desire, Novelists, United States

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• Jealousy fuses megalomania and self-abandonment.

  Mason Cooley

  Jealousy, Self, Abandonment

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• There exists no greater megalomania than thinking that we are all alone in this cosmic ocean!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ocean, Thinking, All Alone

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• Institutions have the pathetic megalomania of the computer whose whole vision of the world is its own program.

  Mary Douglas

  Vision, World, Computer

  Mary Douglas (1986). “How Institutions Think”, p.92, Syracuse University Press

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• You're certainly not alone in your megalomania. Everyone feels that way-and for good reason. Because it's true!

  Lon Milo DuQuette

  Paganism, Way, Reason

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• Woman cannot be free until man's mind is liberated from the megalomania! His self-exaltation is the mother of the gender inequalities. Till we eliminate his exacerbated narcissism, woman will remain unfree!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Mother, Men, Self

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• Oh, good. You're starting to talk about yourself in the third person. That's not a sign of impending megalomania or anything.

  Cassandra Clare

  Third Person, Starting, About Yourself

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• Who are you?" he asked. I am the future queen of this world, at the very least. You may refer to me as Mistress Koboi for the next five minutes. After that you may refer to me as Aaaaarrrrgh, hold your throat, die screaming, and so on.

  Eoin Colfer

  Queens, Mistress, World

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• I don't really think that writers, even great writers, are prophets, or sages, or Messiah-like figures; writing is a lonely, sedentary occupation and a touch of megalomania can be comforting around five on a November afternoon when you haven't seen anybody all day.

  Angela Carter

  Lonely, Writing, Thinking

  Angela Carter (1997). “Shaking a Leg: Journalism and Writings”, Vintage

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• Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Law, Schedules, Built

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.225, Penguin

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• Can we come to the point where we can accept the impossible strivings that we have, the utter inability to ever fulfill our narcissistic megalomania, and then go on to live our lives and accept our disturbing thoughts? We need to accept our vulnerabilities and have love for our imperfections. If you can want what you have, I think you're on your way.

  Francis Levy

  Thinking, Imperfection, Narcissistic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Mao appears to be quite free from symptoms of megalomania, but he has a deep sense of personal dignity, and something about him suggests a power of ruthless decision when he deems it necessary.

  Edgar Snow

  Decision, Dignity, Mao

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Man is a megalomaniac among animals-if he sees mountains he will try to imitate them by pyramids, and if he sees some grand process like evolution, and thinks it would be at all possible for him to be in on that game, he would irreverently have to have his whack at that too. That daring megalomania of his-has it not brought him to his present place?

  Jacques Loeb

  Science, Animal, Men

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• American megalomania is largely responsible for the growth of the Skyscraper School.

  Philip Johnson

  School, Growth, Responsible

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• I bet Richard Fuld doesn't have an ounce of contrition. It's just megalomania. When it's like that, you need rules to prevent catastrophe. When banks are borrowing the government's credit rating, you need rules to prevent stupid things.

  Charlie Munger

  Stupid, Government, Needs

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• Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.

  Bono

  Dad, Overcoming, Today

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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