In the light of our egos, we are all dethroned monarchs

“history informs us that the passage of dethroned monarchs is short from prison to the grave.”18”

— Harlow Giles Unger

Your ego may be just a soap bubble. Maybe for a few seconds it will remain, rising higher in the air. Perhaps for a…

— Rajneesh

One of the main destructive forces within our family has been these runaway egos. I think if you look at any show business family,…

— Rufus Wainwright

“Because it's indeed difficult to portray, in any meaningful depth, another being, his appearance, speech, mentality, without to some degree, and often for quite…

— truman capote

The truth is that while men, in our society, are encouraged to have strong egos and to function in competitive, aggressive, intellectualized modes that…

— Starhawk

I'm just trying to rid the world of all these fevered egos that are tainting our collective unconscious...

— Bill Hicks

I think maybe Mr. Sinise and Mr. Bacon have slightly bigger egos than I do.

— Eric Roberts

People expect not just songwriters but all personalities to pontificate about their egos.

— Cass McCombs

Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.…

— Ram Dass

Cruel and paradoxical though it undoubtedly is, the record shows that yje most succesful 20th century monarchs have been those who were not actually…

— David Cannadine

Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers, as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer. Culture alters the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Monarchs not only fashion their age, but are fashioned by it, so that they can become a sort of personification of the age. If…

— Eva Figes

But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord; nor…

— Edward Gibbon

I need no bodyguard at all, for even the bravest men who approach me get weak at the knees and their hearts turn to…

— Shaka

O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs…

— William Shakespeare