Madonna Ciccone Quotes

When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.

It was hard to love my wife and kids because I was all wrapped up in loving only myself. I did what I wanted, when I wanted, without any real concern for them.

In a state of nature, the weakest go to the wall; in a state of over-refinement, both the weak and the strong go to the gutter.

An ignorant man believes that the whole universe only exists for him: as if nothing else required any consideration. If, therefore, anything happens to him contrary to his expectation, he at once concludes that the whole universe is evil. If, however, he would take into consideration the whole universe, form an idea of it, and comprehend what a small portion he is of the Universe, he will find the truth. There are many ... passages in the books of the prophets expressing the same idea.

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.

None are so inconsiderate as those who demand nothing of life other than their own personal comfort.

He who lives only for himself is truly dead to others.

When you wept it was just over yourself and not because of the marvelous impossibility of reaching her through the difference that separates you.

To be extremely self-centred, only interested in your own satisfaction, always brings negative consequences in the long run.

Self-pity dries up our sympathy for others.

In short, selfishness is the opposite of love.

Selfishness is the only real atheism.

To some people the ego is evil. It gives you so much. It gives you everything you want. But it takes back too much in return. It gives you everything: money, riches, women, glamour, everything you want. But in return it takes back so much, and you're soulless. That's its goal. The ego's goal is to leave you soulless.

By this method thousands of humans have been brought to think that humility means pretty women trying to believe they are ugly and clever men trying to believe they are fools. And since what they are trying to believe may, in some cases, be manifest nonsense, they cannot succeed in believing it and we have the chance of keeping their minds endlessly revolving on themselves in an effort to achieve the the impossible.

Selfishness comes from poverty in the heart, from the belief that love is not abundant.

Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others.

Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.

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

We create the world in which we live; if that world becomes unfit for human life, it is because we tire of our responsibility.

Human hunger birthed the Civlize, but human hunger killed it too.

The civilization you sit in ... is now obvious in crisis, perhaps death pangs, twisting grotesquely like a dying animal, swirling down the garbage drain-this civilization was founded on God's road map.

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.

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

Traditionalists like me believe the USA has become strong because of its core values, the freedom, individual responsibility and institutions like traditional marriage, which foster common goals.

Only a very small percentage can regard conditions from any but a selfish point of view or conceive of any but their own shoe-pinch.