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Egotism Quotes by Germaine Greer
- Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures.
- As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know that our love…
- Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy, generosity and spontaneity.
- Love, love, love – all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced…
- If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or…
More Egotism Quotes
- Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their… — Karen Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living. — Arnold Bennett
- Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is… — Christian Nestell Bovee
- Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries. — Thomas Carlyle
- I always thought I should be treated like a star. — Madonna Ciccone
- Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death. — Pope John Paul II
- I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde
- The object of a bunker or trap is not only to punish a physical mistake, to punish lack of control, but also… — Unknown Author
- The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial. — Victor Hugo
- Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every… — William Hazlitt
- Although I cannot believe that the individual survives the death of his body, feeble souls harbor such thought through fear or ridiculous… — Albert Einstein