Quote by Henry Bromell

“Dishonest thinking, prejudice, ego, antagonism toward anyone and everyone who dares to cross him, vanity, and a critical attitude are character defects that gradually…

— Alcoholics Anonymous

“persuading himself that he was a most conscientious and glorious martyr, [he] nobly resolved to do what, if he had examined his own heart…

— Charles Dickens

“O The irony of man of ignorance; haughtinesses; and tyranny , he thinks he's past generation did not repeat the same way of harming…

— A Gentlemen

“The inflated ego of the tyrant is a curse to himself and his world – no matter how his affairs may prosper. Self-terrorized, fear-haunted,…

— Joseph Campbell

“Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane. Respect rather than fear.…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

He had long ago learned that society imposes insults that must be borne, comforted by the knowledge that in this world there comes a…

— Mario Puzo

He had long ago learned that society imposes insults that must be borne, comforted by the knowledge that in this world there comes a…

— Mario Puzo

The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets…

— Sophocles

“If he tells the truth, it is because the most reeking lie no longer intoxicates him, even though he swallow it not in the…

— Lev Shestov

“There was no other explanation for such an illness in a man otherwise so young and fit. It was the consequence of failing to…

— Philip Roth

“He could be boastful in a way pleasantly at odds with his native fatalism, and his youthful stubbornness had a way of ameliorating into…

— Dan Lopez

“And now he had acquired the wisdom to admit that sometimes experienced his disdain for “weak, sick people” because he was frightened by any…

— James C. Coyne