Quotes on Megalomania

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.

If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity.