"To justify and extol human greed and egotism……" — Gore Vidal
"To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil."
More Egotism Quotes
- Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They… — Karen Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense… — 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… — 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,… — 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… — William Hazlitt
- Although I cannot believe that the individual survives the death of his body, feeble souls harbor such thought through fear… — Albert Einstein