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  • If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior?

    Religious   Passion   Law  
    Dennis Prager (2016). “A Dark Time in America”, p.8, Creators Publishing
  • The clarity of gender makes possible the human dialectic. Let the lines of balanced tension go slack and the structure dissolves into the ooze of androgyny and narcissism.

    Men   Lines   Narcissism  
  • All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism.

    "Because you're worth it" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2006.
  • There’s Socialism and Communism and Capitalism and there’s Feminism and Hedonism, and there’s Catholicism and Bipedalism and Consumerism, but I think Narcissism is the system that means the most to me.

  • Withhold admiration from a narcissist and be disliked. Give it and be treated with indifference.

  • Woman cannot be free until man's mind is liberated from the megalomania! His self-exaltation is the mother of the gender inequalities. Till we eliminate his exacerbated narcissism, woman will remain unfree!

    Mother   Men   Self  
  • I mean, what do you think creativity is? Nothing but self-indulgence. And the more self-indulgent it is, the more interesting it becomes. So I think that part of creativity is also falling in love with your own narcissism: accepting it, using it as an asset.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • Vanity, right?" Nash reappeared in the living room with an open bag of potato chips. "I nominate my venerable brother. He likes to play hero, and one look at him should establish the vanity angle." "Nash!" I really shouldn't have been surprised by the dig. But I was. "What?" He raised one brow at me in challenge. "It's okay to call me jealous, but not to call him vain?" "Awareness of one's obvious advantages doesn't imply vanity," Tod insisted calmly. Nash turned on him. "Does it imply narcissism?" Tod huffed. "This coming from the guy who owns more hair products than his girlfriend.

    Rachel Vincent (2014). “Soul Screamers: Volume 4”, p.33, Harlequin
  • Bodybuilding is men on a stage in their underwear wearing brown paint showing other men their muscles. It is training for appearance only, and at the contest level requires a degree of vanity, narcissism, and self-absorption that I find distasteful and odd

  • Flawless . . . Tightly choreographed . . . Shipstead gains entry into exclusive worlds and trains her opera glasses on private social rituals, as well as behind-the-scenes hanky panky . . . Similar to classic ballet, the power of Astonish Me arises out of the pairing of a melodramatic storyline with scrupulously executed range of movement . . . Shipstead sweeps you into this insider world of sweat, narcissism, and short-lived magic . . . Transcendent.

    Glasses   Sweat   Ballet  
  • The very wealthy and the very famous have a much closer affinity with the indigent street person than with the rest of us. There's the narcissism, the addiction, even the outlandish dress. Often they don't put great value in relationships.

  • I just love being on stage and I love making music, and as far as - it's great for narcissism, because you have all those people screaming out your name.

    Love Is   Names   People  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • Having a child makes you realize the importance of life - narcissism goes out the window. Heaven on earth is looking at my little boy. The minute he was born, I knew if I never did anything other than being a mom, I'd be fine.

    Mom   Mother   Children  
  • The narcissist enjoys being looked at and not looking back.

  • Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use that fact as a therapeutic lever - stressing to patients that being known as a narcissist will actually cause them to lose the respect and social status they crave.

  • It is a form of generational narcissism to change texts to suit one's own needs.

    Luke Timothy Johnson (2007). “The Creed: What Christians Believe and Why it Matters”, p.85, Image
  • A dead language is not only one no longer spoken or written, it is unyielding language content to admire its own paralysis. Like statist language, censored and censoring. Ruthless in its policing duties, it has no desire or purpose other than maintaining the free range of its own narcotic narcissism, its own exclusivity and dominance. However moribund, it is not without effect for it actively thwarts the intellect, stalls conscience, suppresses human potential. Unreceptive to interrogation, it cannot form or tolerate new ideas, shape other thoughts, tell another story, fill baffling silences.

    Ideas   Silence   Desire  
    Nobel Prize for Literature Lecture, delivered 7 December 1993
  • Among all the emotions, the rich have the least talent for love. It is possible to love one's dog, dress or duck-shooting hat, but a human being presents a more difficult problem. The rich might wish to experience feelings of affection, but it is almost impossible to chip away the enamel of their narcissism. They take up all the space in all the mirrors in the house. Their children, who represent the most present and therefore the most annoying claim on their attention, usually receive the brunt of their irritation.

    Love   Dog   Children  
    Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”
  • We come from a proud tradition of people who have insisted that none of us can be truly successful until at least the barriers to such success and thriving are completely removed. I think the black narcissism that prevails, along with the stylish materialism and self-satisfied, smug attitudes among many of our upwardly mobile brothers and sisters should be identified and criticized.

    Source: www.washingtonpost.com
  • Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil necessary for the control of rodents and subsequently fetishized the way unhappy countries fetishize their militaries, saluting the uniforms of killers as cat owners stroke their animals' lovely fur and forgive their claws and fangs. He'd never seen anything in a cat's face but simpering incuriosity and self-interest; you only had to tease one with a mouse-toy to see where it's true heart lay...cats were all about using people

    Jonathan Franzen (2010). “Freedom: A Novel”, p.548, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • One of the things that's complicated about writing anything is that it's an act of narcissism, and then of course once it sails out into the world, you have to let go of it.

    "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Bill Ayers". Interview with Rachel DeWoskin, therumpus.net. December 1, 2013.
  • I'm totally a narcissist, so I was doing all this performance and having lots of weird ego time, and learning to set aside my love for the ego and find a deeper love for myself and through that seeing myself as one with all beings. And through loving myself, loving all people in the world, that was my cure for narcissism, the only cure.

    People   Ego   World  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • Narcissism, like the other personality disorders, is a condition that's known as ego-syntonic. In other words, the paranoid person really does believe that people are after him, and the narcissist really does believe that he or she is better than or more entitled than other people, and truly doesn't see why that's not the case.

    Source: www.dinnerpartydownload.org
  • The idea of narcissism, essentially, is and will be accepted as a virtue.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • Never underestimate the narcissism of a writer.

  • Really life is about narcissism; no one is ever thinking about you much. You always think people are thinking about you way more than they are.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Narcissism and Christianity have little in common, yet the Romantic paradigm of artistic creativity, particularly in light of subsequent Freudian ideas, has tended to foster its share of narcissism. It was the tragic fate of Narcissus that he was so preoccupied with self that he could not appreciate God, nature, or the other.

    Creativity   Fate   Light  
  • People, no matter the economic class, find ways to feed their narcissism.

    Class   People   Matter  
    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • The whole narcissism and echo syndrome is usually the result of early childhood training. Those are very hard habits for anyone to break.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • There's a kind of journalistic narcissism that New York-based journalists are guilty of.

    "Bernie Goldberg on New York Times Editor Insulting the Eucharist and Media Hype of Hurricane Irene". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. August 29, 2011.
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