National pride is the culmination of a lifetime public relations campaign of psychological mind-control techniques.

For thirty minutes I sat back and felt the glimmer of pride that historically precedes the most catastrophic falls.

You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.

When walking into the lair of the dragon after robbing his hoard, the least you could do is hold you head high [...]

Who knows himself a braggart, let him fear this, for it will come to pass that every braggart shall be found an ass.

The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval.

The pride of aiming at more knowledge, and pretending to more perfection, is the cause of Man's error and misery.

The seeking face that will not alter when presented with reason, must delight in its wearer's prideful ignorance.

Swearing doesn’t make your argument valid; it just tells the other person you have lost your class and control.

The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.

The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's.

He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success.

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.

The author determines that the bitterest struggles are for one side of the truth to the suppression of the other side.