Quotes About Egoism

Maximising the average utility allows a person to kill everyone else if that would make him ecstatic, and so happier than average.

People who are self-denying and selfless have little to offer to others.

This planet is full of people operating on the premise that their interests trump the interests of pretty much everyone else on the planet.

Mine first—mine last— mine even in the grave!

la fe resulta ser por un lado la expresión más alta del egoísmo (lleva a cabo lo terrible por amor a sí mismo), y por otro, la más absoluta expresión de la entrega, pues lleva a cabo la acción por amor a Dios. La fe nunca puede mediar en lo general; de hacerlo quedaría anulada. La fe consiste en esa paradoja, y el Particular no logrará nunca que otro le comprenda.

One could guess that there was the delicate forethought of a mother behind this choice of the pavillon for Albert: while not wanting to be separated from her son, she nevertheless realized that a young man of the viscount's age needed all his freedom. On the other hand, it must be said that one could also recognize in this the intelligent egoism of the young man, the son of wealthy parents, who enjoyed the benefits of a free and idle life, which was gilded for him like a birdcage.

Oh, what is man!' d'Avrigny muttered. 'The most egoistical of all animals, the most personal of all creatures, who cannot believe otherwise than that the earth revolves, the sun shines and death reaps for him alone – an ant, cursing God from the summit of a blade of grass!

Oh, uomo! - mormorò d'Avrigny, - il più egoista di tutti gli animali, la più egocentrica di tutte le creature, che sempre crede che la terra giri, il sole splenda e la morte falci vite soltanto per lui, formica che maledice Dio dall'alto di un filo d'erba!

Oh, o homem (...), o mais egoísta de todos os animais, a mais personalista de todas as criaturas, sempre a acreditar que a terra gira, que o sol brilha, que a morte ceifa só para ele; formiga a amaldiçoar Deus do alto de uma folha de relva!

Patriotism is most often nothing more but an extension of individual egoism

Despotism, suspicious by its very nature, views the separation of men as the best guarantee of its own permanence and usually does all it can to keep them in isolation. No defect of the human heart suits it better than egoism; a tyrant is relaxed enough to forgive his subjects for failing to love him, provided that they do not love one another...he gives the name of 'good citizens' to those who retreat into themselves.

Le despotisme, qui, de nature, est craintif, voit dans l'isolement des hommes le gage le plus certain de sa propre durée, et il met d'ordinaire tous ses soins à les isoler. Il n'est pas de vice du cÅ"ur humain qui lui agrée autant que l'égoïsme : un despote pardonne aisément aux gouvernés de ne point l'aimer, pourvu qu'ils ne s'aiment pas entre eux.

Não existem atos que não sejam egoístas. Quando as pessoas fazem coisas para os outros, é sempre por causa dos seus próprios motivos psicológicos pessoais.

You remind us that we're selfish bastards. You're not one of us, that way.

It is a mark of a narcissistic age that some Christians have come to interpret these words as suggesting that we make Jesus present by means of our community, when exactly the reverse is the case. The only reason why Christians gather is that Jesus has already united us. We gather not in our names but in His name. It is He who has called us out of the darkness of egoism into His wonderful light.

It's just really frustrating how people are just so selfish in this industry. It makes me very angry.

Like any other human activity, religion can be abused and made to exacerbate our frightened egoism instead of helping us to transcend it.

In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.

The only thing I find interesting is self-interest.

Without compassion, freedom can be self-righteous, inhuman, self-centered, and cruel.

After all, when our egoism lets us go for a while, when it comes time to throw it off, the only women whose memory you cherish in your hearts are the ones who really loved men a little, not just one man, even if it was you, but the whole lot.

When we seek our own pleasure as the ultimate good we place ourselves as the center of the universe.

Get your ego in check and half your battles in life will disappear.

L'amore è una faccenda intima strana e piena di contraddizioni, visto che non di rado amiamo qualcuno solo perchè amiamo noi stessi, per egoismo, avidità, desiderio fisico, brama di dominare l'oggetto d'amore e asservirlo; o al contrario, per desiderio di asservirci e essere dominati dal nostro amante, e in fondo l'amore assomiglia all'odio e gli è più prossimo di quanto non si pensi normalmente.