Suzanne Collins Quotes

I went to see the Beatles last month... And I heard 20,000 girls screaming together at the Beatles... and I couldn't hear what they were screaming, either... But you don't have to... They're screaming Me! Me! Me! Me!... I'm Me!... That's the cry of the ego, and that's the cry of this rally!... Me! Me! Me! Me!... And that's why wars get fought... ego... because enough people want to scream Pay attention to Me... Yep, you're playing their game.

Just each of us being me, me, me first. The murderer, the victim, the witness each of us thinks our role is the lead. Probably that goes for anybody in the world.

Every ignoramus imagines that all that exists, exists with a view to his individual sake; it is as if there were nothing that exists except him. And if something happens to him that is contrary to what he wishes, he makes the trenchant judgement that all that exists is an evil.

Selfishness is the only real atheism.

Each one is all in all to himself; for being dead, all is dead to him.

I've found the secret of happiness, total disregard of everybody.

The quality of owning freezes you forever in "I," and cuts you off forever from the "we.

The sources of human problems have to do with egotism, ‘I.’

It is the tragedy of other people that they are to us merely showcases for the very perishable collections of our own mind.

How often, in this cold and bitter world, is the warm heart thrown back upon itself! Cold, careless, are we of another's grief; we wrap ourselves in sullen selfishness.

It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.

We're into an age of excessive individuals, all right. We're into the age were independence, autonomy, convenience, sometimes selfishness. The new trinity of me, myself and I, seems to dominate. We know that's contrary to the very nature of the human person. The very nature of the human person needs God and needs other people.

Leftism and narcissism are almost synonymous

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

Everything that is not me is incomprehensible.

The problem in narcissism is not the high ideals and ambitions, it's the difficulty one encounters when trying to give them body.

I don't dream about anyone - except myself

It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others.

The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously.

I bet it gets pretty lonely with only your ego for company.

My point is, that if I'm honest, my life is all about me.

For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.

Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.

If it is right for me, it is right. It is possible that it is wrong for others: let them take care of themselves!

Individualism is a denial that life has any meaning except the gratification of the ego; in politics it must end in anarchy. It is not possible for one man to be both Christian and Individualist.