Megalomania Quotes

American megalomania is largely responsible for the growth of the Skyscraper School.

Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.

You're certainly not alone in your megalomania. Everyone feels that way-and for good reason. Because it's true!

Mao appears to be quite free from symptoms of megalomania, but he has a deep sense of personal dignity, and something about him suggests a power of ruthless decision when he deems it necessary.

The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

Can we come to the point where we can accept the impossible strivings that we have, the utter inability to ever fulfill our narcissistic megalomania, and then go on to live our lives and accept our disturbing thoughts? We need to accept our vulnerabilities and have love for our imperfections. If you can want what you have, I think you're on your way.

At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity.

Who are you?" he asked. I am the future queen of this world, at the very least. You may refer to me as Mistress Koboi for the next five minutes. After that you may refer to me as Aaaaarrrrgh, hold your throat, die screaming, and so on.

If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.

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!

Americans and their desire to be novelists, the American novel should be listed in medical dictionaries alongside Megalomania and Obsessional Neuroses.

Man is a megalomaniac among animals-if he sees mountains he will try to imitate them by pyramids, and if he sees some grand process like evolution, and thinks it would be at all possible for him to be in on that game, he would irreverently have to have his whack at that too. That daring megalomania of his-has it not brought him to his present place?

Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.

Institutions have the pathetic megalomania of the computer whose whole vision of the world is its own program.

I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.

It's this kind of wild unpredictability, megalomania, thin-skinned craziness that really has me worried, more than [Donald Trump] statements. Now, on the climate change there's just nothing to say, he's perfectly straightforward.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

I bet Richard Fuld doesn't have an ounce of contrition. It's just megalomania. When it's like that, you need rules to prevent catastrophe. When banks are borrowing the government's credit rating, you need rules to prevent stupid things.

Bill, we left megalomania behind a long time ago. Now we are gigalomaniacs.

Murder is the apex of megalomania, the ultimate in control.

There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a desire for thrills. But the malady of our time is of those who become spies out of idealism.

There exists no greater megalomania than thinking that we are all alone in this cosmic ocean!

I don't really think that writers, even great writers, are prophets, or sages, or Messiah-like figures; writing is a lonely, sedentary occupation and a touch of megalomania can be comforting around five on a November afternoon when you haven't seen anybody all day.

Oh, good. You're starting to talk about yourself in the third person. That's not a sign of impending megalomania or anything.

Jealousy fuses megalomania and self-abandonment.