Sentences with phrase «libido dominandi»

Until that day, the history of the world is marked by what St. Augustine calls libido dominandi — the lust for glory and power.

Libido dominandi is what St. Augustine named this urge, though he knew better than to defend it.

Those who have contempt for the political world will ignore it by turning their backs on it, or they will treat it as a field in which the libido dominandi has unrestricted play.

We can diagnose their performance as a bad case of libido dominandi, in which their own egos have been written so large that they must depict history as a story of progress culminating in their own genius.