Aggrandizement Quotes

18 quotes by 17 authors

The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious beliefin lies that have been foisted upon us for ages by those directly above us,… — Edgar Rice Burroughs
It is for the good of nations, and not for the emolument or aggrandizement of particular individuals, that government ought to be established, and that… — Thomas Paine
They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men… — William Faulkner
It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like a train going… — Henry Ward Beecher
War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement — James Madison
The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to… — Charles Horton Cooley
Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame. Be ambitious for the… — William A. Clark
Each of us is born with two contradictory sets of instructions: a conservative tendency, made up of instincts for self-preservation, self-aggrandizement, and saving energy, and… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled towards absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of… — Glen Cook
In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of… — Heather Donahue
The three branches of government number considerably more than three and are not, in any sense, 'branches' since that would imply that there is something… — P.J. O'Rourke
The object of every free government is the public good, and all lesser interests yield to it. That of every tyrannical government, is the happiness… — Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger
Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive, sensitive, awake, empty....… — Erich Fromm
For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice of many, the… — Charles Caleb Colton
Aided and abetted by corrupt analysts, patients who have nothing better to do with their lives often use the psychoanalytic situation to transform insignificant childhood… — Thomas Szasz
Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between willing sellers and buyers described in Econ 101 textbooks; 2) as… — Charles C. Mann
All wars of interference, arising from an officious intrusion into the concerns of other states; all wars of ambition, carried on for the purposes of… — Charles Caleb Colton
Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get… — B.F. Skinner

Who Wrote These Aggrandizement Quotes

17 authors contributed a total of 18 Aggrandizement Quotes as follows: