Egotism

Egotism, which is so apparent or at least to seeming may be pardoned for what I know lest Satirical Reflections on it should provoke Some one to produce Proofs that if it is Egotism it is no Vanity.

Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 9 March 1797 1797

I shall be severely punished indeed for having made "Egotism" the subject of one of my "Rhymes," if it should influence any of my friends to refrain from those communications, on which the interest of a friendly correspondence entirely depends.

Memoirs, Correspondence and Poetical Remains of Jane Taylor 1832

Egotism is mainly a defensive reaction of feelings of personal inadequacy -- ego is a positive conviction and belief in one's ability, with no need for egotistical behavior.

Saul Alinsky on Barack Obama and OFA, via Ralph Benko Sifry, Micah L. 2010

Egotism is mainly a defensive reaction of feelings of personal inadequacy -- ego is a positive conviction and belief in one's ability, with no need for egotistical behavior.

Saul Alinsky on Barack Obama and OFA, via Ralph Benko 2010

Egotism is a passionate and exaggerated love of self, which leads a man to connect everything with his own person, and to prefer himself to everything in the world.

This Looks Important, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Egotism is a vice as old as the world, which does not belong to one form of society more than to another: individualism is of democratic origin, and it threatens to spread in the same ratio as the equality of conditions.

This Looks Important, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

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OpEdNews - Diary: How much time do you spend on OEN 2009

Of Shelley, Hazlitt wrote: "Egotism, petulance, licentiousness, levity of principle is a bad thing in any one, and most of all, in a philosophical reformer."

The Great Provoker 2009

Egotism originates in blind instinct: individualism proceeds from erroneous judgment more than from depraved feelings; it originates as much in the deficiencies of the mind as in the perversity of the heart.

This Looks Important, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Egotism blights the germ of all virtue; individualism, at first, only saps the virtues of public life; but, in the long run, it attacks and destroys all others, and is at length absorbed in downright egotism.

This Looks Important, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009