Ego Quotes

A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego. 
Roseanne Barr 

A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two. 
Will Eisner 

A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up. It just does it. 
Matthew Barney 

A lot of people have this ego need that makes them want to believe that Earth is the center of the universe and humans are the most important species, the supreme expression of creation. 
Ann Druyan 

A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego. 
Muhammed Iqbal 

After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that. 
Dan Castellaneta 

An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego. 
Alec Guinness 

An actress must never lose her ego - without it she has no talent. 
Tom Lehrer 

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.
Sigmund Freud 

And it's a question of how far we're willing to go in order to let the ego shine, in order to let that beacon penetrate not only the local scene but the world. 
Taylor Hackford 

Anytime there is a struggle between doing what is actually right and doing what seems right, then your ego is interfering with your decision. 
Darren L. Johnson 

As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself. 
Martin Heidegger 

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. 
Colin Powell 

Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego. 
Taylor Hackford 

But I think Barry Sonnenfeld let his ego go out of control. He told me in a meeting that he had to do something to make it his film. 
Robert Conrad 

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it. 
Colin Powell 

Drugs, alcohol and ego. They are a bad mix. 
Don Dokken 

Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing! 
Pat Riley 

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame. 
Robert Anton Wilson 

Communism quotes

A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence. 
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 

A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism. 
Karl Marx 

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm. 
Kurt Vonnegut 

After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history. 
Hans Kung 

But let there be no misunderstanding. The war against terror is every bit as important as our fight against fascism in World War II. Or our struggle against the spread of Communism during the Cold War. 
Jim Bunning 

Christ in this country would quite likely have been arrested under the Suppression of Communism act. 
Joost de Blank 

Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism. 
Andre Malraux 

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff. 
Frank Zappa 

Communism feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men's minds and souls. This shall not take root in the United States.
Emanuel Celler 

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both. 
John F. Kennedy 

Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government. 
Grover Cleveland 

Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and, if we deem it reasonable, act upon it. 
Friedrich Durrenmatt 

Communism is in conflict with human nature. 
Ernest Renan 

Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak. 
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 

Communism is like one big phone company. 
Lenny Bruce 

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy. 
Mao Tse-Tung 

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country. 
Vladimir Lenin 

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice. 
Adlai E. Stevenson 

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal. 
Adlai E. Stevenson 

Communism is trying to take the world by force. But God will take the world by love. 
Sun Myung Moon 
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death. 
Heinrich Heine 

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation. 
Will Rogers 

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies. 
H. L. Mencken 

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements. 
Nelson Mandela 

Democracy was being saved from Communism by getting rid of democracy. 
Juan Bosch 

Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied. 
Nikita Khrushchev 

For Europe, the fall of Communism has to be taken into account, and the fact that in the fight against Communism the recovery of Europe's Christian roots was the driving force. 
Rocco Buttiglione 

For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion. 
Alexander Solzehnitsyn 

For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion. 
Alexander Solzhenitsyn 

From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems - democracy. 
Jack Kingston 

From its inception, South Vietnam was only considered to be an outpost in the war against communism. 
Nguyen Cao Ky 

Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism. 
Jack Levine 

I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal. 
Roger Nash Baldwin 

I can understand Communism, but not Socialism. 
Lajos Kossuth 

I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books. 
Omar Torrijos Herrera 

I don't really view communism as a bad thing. 
Whoopi Goldberg 

I have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people. 
Lech Walesa 

I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die. 
Eldridge Cleaver 

I know that I am leaving the winning side for the losing side, but it is better to die on the losing side than to live under Communism. 
Whittaker Chambers 

I see in Communism the focus of the concentrated evil of our time. 
Whittaker Chambers 
I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it. 
Pete Seeger 

I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan. 
Pat Boone 

I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did. 
Elia Kazan 

If Communism goes, I've still got the U.S. House of Representatives.
Robert Novak 

If the English want a king, it is their business. If the Russians want communism, it is their business. If the Americans want our form of government, it is our business. 
Julius Rosenberg 

If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country but in the world, any thought of centralization must be a monstrosity. 
Johann Most 

In my speeches, I always condemned communism, national-socialism and fascism. 
Jean-Marie Le Pen 

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy. 
Fran Lebowitz 

It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible. 
Warren Farrell 

It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which claims to be a solution of the crisis, is itself a symptom and an irritant of the crisis. 
Whittaker Chambers 

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me. 
Ho Chi Minh 

It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed. 
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 

It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art, so we should eventually strive to be working with the best people. 
Amy Poehler 

Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just and idea, just pie in the sky. 
Boris Yeltsin 

Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world. 
Earl Warren 

My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth. 
Guillermo Cabrera Infante 

Never, since the fall of communism, has it been so abundantly clear that an ethos exists, which is loath to accept the freedoms and prosperity we hold sacred in this nation. 
Jim Walsh 

No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society. 
Charles E. Wilson 

On a scale personal enough to be felt by all, but big enough to be symbolic, the two irreconcilable faiths of our time - Communism and Freedom - came to grips in the persons of two conscious and resolute men. 
Whittaker Chambers 

Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great. 
Clement Attlee 

Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades. 
Gary North 

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English. 
George Bernard Shaw 

The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power. 
Whittaker Chambers 

The chief task was to stop the arms race before it brought utter disaster. However, after the collapse of communism and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, any rationale for having nuclear weapons disappeared. 
Joseph Rotblat 

The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble. 
Alexander Solzhenitsyn 

The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting. 
Richard M. Nixon 

The communism of Marx seeks a strong state centralization, and where this exists, there the parasitic Jewish nation - which speculates upon the labor of people - will always find the means for its existence. 
Mikhail Bakunin 

The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism. 
A. J. P. Taylor 

The goal of socialism is communism. 
Vladimir Lenin 

The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp. 
John Boyd Orr 

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property. 
Karl Marx 

The war against terror is every bit as important as our fight against fascism in World War II. Or our struggle against the spread of Communism during the Cold War. 
Jim Bunning 

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism. 
Karl Marx 

There will be no communism. 
Francisco Franco 

Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic.
Friedrich Durrenmatt 

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. 
John Kenneth Galbraith 

Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution of private property and the right to investment profit. 
John L. Lewis 

We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression of all individual freedom. 
Emanuel Celler 

We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation. 
Joichi Ito 

We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change. 
Serj Tankian 

We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change. 
Serj Tankian 

We need do no more than repeat: only under communism does the individual become himself and lead his own life. 
Johann Most 

We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over the last five years has been remarkable. 
Derek Jacobi 

We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism. 
Frederica Montseny 

When I die, my only wish is that Cambodia remain Cambodia and belong to the West. It is over for communism, and I want to stress that. 
Pol Pot 

With his trademark courage and conviction, President Reagan led us out of the Cold War, spreading his vision of freedom, resulting in the release of millions of people from the yoke of communism. 
John Doolittle 

You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government. 
Bernard Baruch