Quotes About Selfishness

The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality, dividends before decency, fanaticism before fairness, and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others.

I was irritated by the way he conflated his own shifting needs with an impersonal destiny. I want it, therefore...it's in the stars!

children are at heart selfish, and reasonably so, for they are programmed for survival.

Selfishness is also written on our hearts. This is our mammalian conflict - what to give to others, and what to keep for yourself.

These clever, amoral, inventive, destructive men, single-minded, selfish, emotionally cool, coolly attractive. I think I preferred them to the love of Jesus. They were so necessary, and not only to me. Without them we would still be living in mud huts, waiting to invent the wheel.

Children are bad enough--children are rude, selfish, greedy, and unthinking individuals who are unable to distinguish between their own selfish wants and needs and the wants and needs of others. And adults are children with money, alcohol, and power.

When I was a young woman, my looks attracted a lot of compliments. My mother, however, could not share attention with any other human being.

Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.

That's the trick of free market economic theory: it doesn't just ask you to only be selfish and not care about others. It tells you that by being selfish, you are helping others. And, in fact, by trying to directly help others, you will hurt them.

Our true passions are selfish.

The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed.

For Trump, it's always about Trump and how he makes more money.

I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.

We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity-it's only because I want others to be enslaved by objects, not me.

You can do what you want, but saving love doesn't bring any interest.

The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.

The biggest problem in politics is that you help some S.O.B. get what he wants and then he throws you out of the train.

I'm a greedy old man. Life's been good to me, and I want some more of it.

Personalities don't love. They want something.

A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others

Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.

People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they don't want it.

Sin is ground in the notion of what is there that I want.

People lie for lots of reasons, often because it seems like a way to get what they want with less effort.