{"quotes":[{"text":"Greatness untethered from God results in calamity unrestrained by men.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["arrogance","calamity","christian","christianity","ego","ego-centric","egotistical","god","great","greatness","greed","jesus","jesus-christ","men","narcissism","restrain","restraint","sin","stubborn"],"id":8508,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["arrogance","bad-decisions","decisions","depravity","ego","egotistical","fallen","foolish","humility","inconsiderate","love","pride","self-centered","selfish","sin","sinners"],"id":38923,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"In one way or another, every mission that I have ever set out on to rescue myself is yet another mission that I end up needing to be rescued from. Hence, there is God.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["arrogance","arrogant","christian","christianity","difficult","ego","egotistical","god","narcissism","narcissistic","pride","prideful","proud","redeem-salvage","redemption","release","rescue","rescue-mission","rescuing","retrieval","retrieve","salvation","self-centered","selfish"],"id":76171,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["appease","appeasement","approval","arrogance","artificial","compliments","ego","egotistical","fake","false","flattery","insincerity","kindness","nice","pride","selfish","support"],"id":89905,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"What insanity would lead me to believe that I possess the power, much less the aptitude to manipulate all of the consequences out of all of my decisions?","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["aptitude","consequences","decisions","deluded","delusional","ego","egotistical","insanity","manipulate","manipulation","misinformed","misled","power"],"id":111206,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"I feel so trapped, by my ego.","author":"T. Scott McLeod","tags":["ego","egocentrism","egoic-consciousness","egotistical"],"id":133038,"author_id":"T.+Scott+McLeod"},{"text":"Perhaps the problem of evil is a human problem, one of an egotistical mind-set, an anthropocentric bent in our thinking and perspective.","author":"Jacob M. Held","tags":["anthropocentric","bad","ego","egotistical","evil","good","human-condition","perspective","philosophy","thinking"],"id":196429,"author_id":"Jacob+M.+Held"},{"text":"The point that I think myself to be so terribly clever is the precise point at which I am beginning to think myself to be god-like, which causes me to become God-less.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["arrogance","arrogant","clever","egocentric","egoism","egotistical","god","god-like","godless","humble","humility","idol","idolatry","smart","superior","worship"],"id":208827,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Consider intentions carefully. Karma gives a damn about ego, awards allegiance to none, and its justice is truly blind.","author":"T.F. Hodge","tags":["allegiance","blind","ego","egotism","egotistical","intent","intention","justice","karma","karma-law","karma"],"id":209674,"author_id":"T.F.+Hodge"},{"text":"The evidence knocked clean out of their hands. Nothing but suspicion left…and you can’t arrest a murderer on suspicion, oh dear no! Only felonious loiterer’s and housebreakers and low scum like that. Not an artist in death, like Edmund Alfred Bickleigh, Esq. MRCS, LRCP.","author":"Francis Iles","tags":["crime","egotistical","murder","murderer"],"id":248476,"author_id":"Francis+Iles"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":41,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}