Sentences with phrase «collective egotism»

Racial prejudice is, first of all, a psychological factor, rooting in collective egotism and pride and the pervasive human tendency to dislike the different.

Sinful egotism is even more pronounced in groups (collective egotism) than in individuals.

Senator Moynihan rightly concedes that one's ethnicity or nationality can be a legitimate source of pride, but warns, using the words of the Christian ethicist Reinhold Niebuhr, that it can also be a form of collective egotism, potentially very destructive.8