The regime sought to overcome the quietism of the middle classes and of the long-suffering peasantry with the propaganda of national greatness. |
Today they are genuinely uncertain of their own greatness, or of how to exercise their power. |
Demonstrations of greatness ultimately rank above close finishes or spectacular upsets. |
Secondly, being raised up to heaven is again no proof of divinity or greatness. |
I don't think writers should be this godlike figure who reads from a podium and signs books while their fans quake before their greatness. |
Are you ambitious, and do you seek after the greatnesses of the earth? |