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

Pride, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Power

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

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"Your pride will be uprooted when a person who insults you appears to be your benefactor. The person who insults should be considered a benefactor, instead people get depressed when they are insulted."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

Pride, Truth, Power, Wisdom, Life

"The pauper is vulnerable to pride and pride is the destroyer of man's glory."

Jaachynma N.E. Agu, Nigerian Author

Pride, Glory, Humanity, Weakness

"There may not be an emotion more complex than the dual stations of pride. The positive connation of pride " the telluric current resulting from both natural causes and interactions of human beings " flows from the conception of applying a person's best effort to accomplish worthwhile tasks. The negative connotation of pride refers to an inflated sense of one's personal status or accomplishments."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Pride, Positive, Negative, Effort

"Gracious pride is a wonderful quality when it is used for good, it brings out the best in you and encourages the best in others."

Susan C. Young, American Author

Pride, Positivity, Encouragement, Self-Improvement

"With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Pride, Truth, Wisdom, Learning

"When you're a black woman, her mother said, ain't no hiding what you are. Day you try, is the day you die. Stand tall, smile bright, and let 'em wonder what secret's making you laugh."

Dan Brown, American Author

Pride, Identity, Strength, Truth

"I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up.He called it his second smile."

Holly Black, American Author

Pride, Violence, Identity, Ritual

"He almost said to himself that he did not like her, before their conversation ended; he tried so hard to compensate himself for the mortified feeling, that while he looked upon her with an admiration he could not repress, she looked at him with proud indifference, taking him, he thought, for what, in his irritation, he told himself - was a great fellow, with not a grace or a refinement about him."

Elizabeth Gaskell, British Novelist

Pride, Admiration, Indifference, Emotion

"Pride is the direct appreciation of oneself."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

Pride, Self, Appreciation, Truth

"Pride and weakness are Siamese twins."

James Russell Lowell, American Poet

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"It is a high spiritual truth that we create with our judgements."

Creation

"There is more than one way to lose your life; quickly through violence, or fettered-away and wasted around dreadful, toxic people."

Danger

"We are all a part of a culture of violence that dominates every aspect of our lives."

Violence

"The secret is in realizing your internal gifts and then setting them free."

Potential

"Freedom only exists in the choice. When you don't have the choice you are not free."

Choice

"The ignoramus crow of "love it or leave it" omits other viable options, such as staying and changing it."

Choice

"Who you are is why you choose poorly, or fail to choose wisely."

Choice

"While the ingrates duke-it-out about the true God, you take each breath in holy gratitude."

Spiritual

"When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again."

Strength

"America was never designed to be fixed forever, but was meant to be fluid and evolving."

Change