The English, besides being "good haters," are dogged and downright, and have no salvos for their self-love. Their vanity does not ...heal the wounds made in their pride. The French, on the contrary, are soon reconciled to fate, and so enamoured of their own idea, that nothing can put them out of conceit with it. Whatever their attachment to their country, to liberty or glory, they are not so affected by the loss of these as to make any desperate effort or sacrifice to recover them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ethical and cultural desegregation. It is a contradiction in terms to scream race pride and equality while at the same time spurni...ng Negro teachers and self-association.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are several sorts of curiosity: a curiosity of self-interest, for example, which makes us desire to learn things that may be... useful to us; and one of pride, which proceeds from an itch to know more than other people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ev...er murderous obsession.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What makes revolutionists is either self-pity, or indignation for the sake of others, or a sympathetic perception of the dominant ...undercurrent of progress in things. The nature before us is revolutionist from the direct sense of personal worth,... that pride of life, which to the Greek was a heavenly grace.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »