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Vanity and narcissism — the compulsive need to be admired and praised — undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction rather than one's own.

Vanity and narcissism — the compulsive need to be admired and praised — undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction rather than one's own.

Rollo May
Fighting, Vanity, Needs
Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.177, W. W. Norton & Company

However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.

Rollo May
Fighting, Covered Up, May
"Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence". Book by Rollo May, Ch. 11 : The Humanity of the Rebel, 1972.

Physical courage in whatever scene ... seems to hinge on whether the individual can feel he is fighting for others as well as himself.

Rollo May
Fighting, Scene, Individual
Rollo May (1998). “Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence”, p.176, W. W. Norton & Company

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