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Narcissistic Personality Symptoms

  1. grandiosity / exaggeration
  2. fantastic thinking / romantic
  3. believes special / unique
  4. requires admiration
  5. entitled / demanding
  6. exploitive / manipulative
  7. lacks empathy
  8. envious / jealous
  9. arrogant / haughty

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DICTATORS

"What good fortune for those in power that people do not think"

Adolf Hitler, as quoted by Joachim Fest.

"All cruelty springs from weakness."

(Seneca, 4BC-AD65)

"Most organizations have a serial bully. It never ceases to amaze me how one person's divisive, disordered, dysfunctional behavior can permeate the entire organization like a cancer." Tim Field

"All it needs for evil to prosper is for people of goodwill to do nothing" Edmund Burke

"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it"

Martin Luther King

'War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength.'

1984 George Orwell

Dr. Irvin Wolkoff wrote an article in the Toronto Globe and Mail, on Feb 22, 2003 about "How dictators in corner offices resemble those on world stage." The only difference between the little ones and the big ones was how far they go. His analysis of them concludes that they suffer from NPD.

Alice Miller writes:

"Adolph Hitler's father Alois was an illegitimate child. He was suspected of being the son of a Jewish merchant from Graz because his mother, Maria Schickelgruber, became pregnant when she was in his domestic employ. The suspicion was not easy to disprove because Adolf Hitler's grandmother received alimony from the merchant for a period of 14 years. Alois must have suffered greatly from this social stigma; the fact that his name was so often changed (Heidler, Hydler, etc.) is a clear indication of the fact. For him, the opprobrium of being both illegitimate and of Jewish descent was a source of unbearable shame. But there was no way he could rid himself of this humiliation. The easiest way for him to vent his pent-up resentment was to take it out on his son Adolf in the form of regular, merciless floggings. I have given a detailed account of this in my book "For Your Own Good" and I return to it in my two latest books "Paths of Life", Pantheon, 1999 and "The Truth Will Set You Free", Basic Books, 2001. In the entire history of anti-Semitism and persecution of the Jews, no other ruler had ever hit upon the idea that, on pain of death, every citizen in his country must provide proof of non-Jewish descent extending back to the third generation. This was Hitler's OWN PERSONAL BRAND OF MANIA. And it is traceable to the insecurity of his existence in his own family, the insecurity of a child constantly living under the threat of violence and humiliation. Later millions were to forfeit their lives so that this child - now a childless adult - could avenge himself by unconsciously projecting the grim scenario of his childhood onto the political stage."

From John Fowles The Magus

"One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true - they were successful because they imposed chaos on order. They tore up the commandments, they denied the super-ego, what you will. They said, "You may persecute the minority, you may kill, you may torture, you may couple and breed without love." They offered humanity all its great temptations. Nothing is true, everything is permitted."

Quote from http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jfowles.htm

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