Quotes About Selfishness

People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.

Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.

Prayer is not the cunning art of using God, subjecting Him to one's selfish ends in an effort to get out of Him what you want.

Those who pursue a worldy life - who try to get others to do what they want, to peform for them, who use and abuse in the name of their own happiness - are miserable.

While every body wants it, most don't want to give it.

If you're not selfish enough to want to feel good, then you can't connect with the energy that is your Source which does always feel good.

He never holds friends firmly who watches only after their own wants.

If you want something, if you take it for your own, you'll always be taking it from someone else.

Even if I'm being selfish, but I want you to only look at me.

That's okay. You an be selfish with me all you want. I'm yours.

How can you call it unreasonable when all I want is my own way?

Everybody values their train, but they want to zero-out other people's trains.

Maybe this is extremely selfish of me, but I do things that I want to make and I don't really care about anyone else when I'm thinking about an idea.

"Most of us tend to belittle all suffering except our own," said Mary. "I think it's fear. We don't want to come too near in case we're sucked in and have to share it".

People who drain others have a certain world they want to get to when they die, and you're their ticket!

Were I not so self-centered, I'd be intrigued. - Tehol Beddict

Do you truly believe suicide belongs solely to the one taking his or her own life? All that rot about selfishness and self-hatred? The lies we tell ourselves to absolve us of all blame, of all the roles that we played in that wretched death?

What did he see, I wonder? What avenue opened before him? A sudden way through, an escape from all the torment? Or was it just the venal act of a selfish child, wanting to somehow punish the woman standing before him … just passing the guilt along, as cowards will do. Well

An unwillingness. I can carry no one else's burden - not even for a moment. We are all pulled inside ourselves now, each alone...

When selfishness becomes a pathology, there will be many innocent victims.

She shrugged. "Saving lives doesn't mean much to me," she said. "You have to protect what's yours. That's all that matters.

Just as blueprints don't necessarily specify blue buildings, selfish genes don't necessarily specify selfish organisms. As we shall see, sometimes the most selfish thing a gene can do is build a selfless brain. Genes are a play within a play, not the interior monologue of the players.

Now as I grow older, Meto, I grow less and less able to tolerate the stupidity of the people and the wickedness of their rulers. I have seen too much suffering created by ambitious men who care only for themselves.

You are a victim of your own mindless greed. This land will radiate glory, but you will never look upon it.