Quotes About Egoism

There is the egoism of technologists. We do it because we can create. I can handle all of the parameters going into the machine, and I know what is going to come out of it.

I only really watch my own films, I don't watch any other films and I don't particularly like any other actors.

I think most people act in their self-interest.

People are selfish, man. They want what they want; they don't care what you want.

Selfishness is a quality and not necessarily a bad thing.

Everyone is out for himself. Not everyone will say so but everyone behaves so. And those that don't say so often behave in an even more grossly selfish way.

All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.

In confronting the theoretical falsity and absurdity of that [Social Democrat] doctrine with the reality of the phenomenon, I gradually acquired a clear picture of its aims... At such times, I was overcome by dark forebodings and fear of something evil. I saw before me a teaching inspired by egoism and hatred, mathematically calculated to win a victory-but the triumph of which would be a mortal blow to humanity.

An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish.

People can be very low for self-interest, Man can do many things for self-interest. Poet Md. Hedaetul Islam

To develop one's individuality is to live the egoistical life of the passions, to make oneself the centre of everything, and end finally by being the slave of a thousand passing goods which bring us a wretched momentary joy. Personality, on the contrary, increases as the soul rises above the sensible world and by intelligence and will binds itself more closely to what makes the life of the spirit.

organization grows vaster, and selfishness attains supremacy.

The only vowel I'm concerned with is 'I.'

Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

I ask you, doctor, what is there in the world more selfish than a baby? Nothing! -The Small Assassin

I had to bear the sunken glare of his fierce crow-footed eyes if I wanted to know; and so I bore it, reflecting how much certain forms of evil are akin to madness, derived from intense egoism, inflamed by resistance, tearing the soul to pieces, and giving factitious vigour to the body.

He had a good healthy sense of meum, and as little of tuum as he could help.

Una cosa es el egoísmo moral y el engreimiento insoportable del que se la sabe todas, y otra muy distinta, la autoafirmación y el fortalecimiento de si mismo.

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. . . let us be above such transparent egotism.

Terribly thwarted in the autumn and winter, deadened in summer, in the spring his egoism would awaken his once inadequately defined revolt against world order and people, and this rebelliousness, this surplus energy, this restlessness of mind and blood would bring him back to life.

Known he couldn't hurt her and she couldn't hurt him. Because neither of them gave a damn about anyone or anything except their own skins.

Every man for himself.

She's very selfish. Not exactly self-centered, but totally indifferent to everyone and everything. Don't you agree?' 'I don't think that's possible,' said Mr Satterthwaite, slowly. 'I mean everyone's interest must go somewhere.