Egotism Quote by Gore Vidal Download Open image “To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.” — Gore Vidal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Egotism Evil Greed Humans Immoral Immorality Justify Mind Objectivism Ominous
Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive. — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it. — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
I think "immoral" is probably the wrong word to use...I prefer the word "unethical." — Ivan Boesky Copy Share Image
I believe that everything in Nature aspires to the acme of strength, well-being, and happiness; and everything that deviates from this I call immoral. — Henry van de Velde Copy Share Image
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“Morality means sacrificing your personal interest for the interest of the group and being immoral means keeping the interest of the self above the interest of the group. In the real world, you have to be a little selfish (immoral) to take care of yourself and accumulate the riches, and only then can you afford to become selfless (moral) by… — Awdhesh Singh Copy Share
Immorality is just as bad now as it was in the past. The difference is that now we flaunt it. It used to be… — J. Vernon McGee Copy Share Image
That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Many people in the United States happen to believe that United States policy is wrong in Vietnam and the Vietcong are correct in wanting… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“It is curious how little interested we are in the sexual desires of those who do not attract us.” — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The oligarchs think that the people are both dangerous and stupid. Their point is moot. But we do know that the oligarchs are a… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Sex is a continuum. You go through different phases along life's way... and if you don't, you've been sort of cheated. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
There's no ifs and buts or maybes, you're gonna miss, you're gonna miss my loving. — Lou Rawls Copy Share Image
“... a man doesn't like to have his ego popped, especially when he prides himself on his sagacity, and then to be proved wrong… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
Elimination of Ego requires humility. EGO-LESS is the fuel to a wise mind and a truly positive reality! — Bobby Compton Copy Share Image
“The lower a human being descends, the more asleep and inhumane he becomes. Those beings that lack Compassion, Love, and Peace are the true… — Jacqueline Ripstein Copy Share Image
We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
What's wrong with this egotism? If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Liberalism makes this mistake in regard to private property and Marxism makes it in regard to socialized property... The Marxist illusion is partly derived… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
When Jerry Lewis and I were big, we used to go to parties, and everybody thought I was big-headed and stuck up, and I… — Dean Martin Copy Share Image
How dare you ever in ya life walk past me without acknowledging their man as God. — LL Cool J Copy Share Image
Honesty, I went through terrible, terrible times where I just took myself over the coals. I thought I must be the most impure person… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Ego erodes the inner tank of wisdom and humility. — Kemmy Nola Http://wwwamoreloveforlifecom Copy Share Image
