megalomania quotes

Megalomania is the occupational disease of global victors, unless controlled by fear.

- Eric (John Ernest) Hobsbawm
  Interesting Times:  A  Twentieth-Century Life.

American megalomania is largely responsible for the growth of the Skyscraper School.

- Philip Cortelyou Johnson
  'The Skyscraper School of Modern  Architecture', in  Arts, X VII (May). Collected in Writings (1979).