The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Clearly I am a person who suffers from a lack of ego.
The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.
The ego is not master in its own house.
Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.
Ego is good.
You know, when I sit in meetings and things are very tense and people take things extremely seriously and they invest a lot of their ego, I sometimes think to myself, 'Come on, you know, there's life and there's death and there is love.' And all of that ego business is nonsense compared to that.
The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies.
I don't have an ego; I'm not egotistical or anything like that.
The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.