Stewart Rahr Quotes

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.

Strikers are egotists, selfish. We have to be.

Ego is the great enemy. Ego will hold you back every single time.

A lot of comedians are selfish.

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!

I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I existed to mean something.

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.

Egos turn me off, big time.

me-firstism

The funny thing about the people I don't like - they're very self-centered.

The reality is that a lot of these bad things that happen in the wrestling business, 90 percent are because of certain people's egos. There's no question about that.

Think of Donald Trump's personal qualities, the bullying, the greed, the showing off, the misogyny, the absurd third-grade theatrics. We have long referred to him as 'The Donald.' He is the only person in America to whom we have added an article before his name. It wasn't because he had attributes we admired.

Selfish, arrogant people drive me crazy.

Entitlement is just the grossest kind of human behavior.

Some say I'm arrogant, some say I'm deluded.

I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.

Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.

In the midst of a world of light and love, of song and feast and dance, [Lucifer] could find nothing to think of more interesting than his own prestige.

Conceit is lovable and unconcealed ; vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.

Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.