Aggrandizement

"Eternity starts here; worldly aggrandizement is dust" Photography by Diana Ricci. ❋ Unknown (2000)

However, if their rulers take the path of self-aggrandizement, which is virtually inevitable in the absence of accountability, then these people will begin to experience indignity and eventually they will revolt, often to settle for a new ruler who is perceived as more benign and dignity-respecting, but not necessarily democratic. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I love when that happens to me, and hope when I do it people don't consider it patronizing or self-aggrandizement, which is (almost) never the spirit in which it is intended. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Procedural aggrandizement, which is perhaps best illustrated by Emmanuel Goldstein's aphorism "The object of power is power." ❋ Unknown (2003)

Art-Union, to be convinced that the great majority do so for the sake of self-aggrandizement, that is, to have a chance of getting the works of our best artists for a mere tithe of their value, or in the language of the advertisements, "of obtaining a valuable return, for a small investment;" as they would buy any other lottery tickets: to make the most out of their money. ❋ Various (N/A)

Four of his nephews and their aggrandizement were the particular objects of his attentions, and two of these -- as we have already said -- Piero and Girolamo Riario, were universally recognized to be his sons. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)

Further, he saw that the arms of Italy, and those more especially of which he might have availed himself, were in the hands of men who had reason to fear his aggrandizement, that is, of the Orsini, the Colonnesi, and their followers. ❋ Unknown (1909)

As the spirit of aggrandizement, which is said to have actuated the public and private conduct of ❋ John Carr (1802)

Their aggrandizement should be the first thing sacrificed in hard times, not the last. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They are representative of the kind of aggrandizement of presidential power that has been going on since the founding of the republic, as documented by Corwin and Schlesinger. ❋ Unknown (2007)