Quotes About Selfishness

when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture.

In this culture, it's so important to find a loving relationship with someone because so much of the culture does not give you that. But the poor kids today, either they're too selfish to take part in a real loving relationship, or they rush into marriage and then six months later, they get divorced. They don't know what they want in a partner. They don't know who they are themselves—so how can they know who they're marrying?

There are many kinds of selfishness in this world, but the most selfish is hoarding

Perhaps he had been selfish, his notion of helping the youth and the country through teaching and research merely an expression of vanity, and the far more decent path would have been to pursue wealth at all costs.

For purely selfish reasons, the old man had preserved what the rest of the world had destroyed.

humans are endlessly stupid and greedy.

The Apprentice delivered the central sales pitch of free-market theory, telling viewers that by unleashing your most selfish and ruthless side, you are actually a hero—creating jobs and fueling growth. Don't be nice, be a killer.

war grows out of desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

Egotism and vanity. These qualities serve as red lights which warn others to keep away. They are fatal to success.

Even the love of study can make people unbelievably selfish; the passion for research can make men as mad and blind as termites in their dark tunnel.

Az ember nem veszi észre, mennyi kapzsiság gyülemlett fel a szívében, amíg meg nem hallja a zsebében a pénz édes csilingelését.

Jaloezie is de religie van de middelmatigen. Het sterkt ze, het beantwoordt aan de onrust die vanbinnen aan ze knaagt en uiteindelijk verteert het hun ziel, terwijl het ze toestaat hun eigen kleinzieligheid en hebzucht te rechtvaardigen totdat ze denken dat het deugden zijn.

alba, el cansancio y la dispersión me ayudaron a localizar de nuevo mi proverbial egoísmo y no tardé en convencerme de que lo óptimo era dejar correr las aguas y, con el tiempo, el río se llevaría la sangre.

Everyone had helped themselves to something with the exception of Fred, who had helped himself to everything.

Maybe that was the trouble. She got the first and biggest share of everything – first whack at the new clothes and the biggest part of any special treat. Hazel never had to grab for anything and she was soft.

She was being a jealous, bitter and incredibly selfish friend, she knew that, but Holly needed to be selfish these days in order to survive. She

Why don't you run away and leave everybody else to clean up the mess? Then you can get on your high horse as usual and blame everybody but yourself.

I want to be first. I know that's selfish, and maybe unattainable, and maybe shallow. But I just want to come first with someone. If that's wrong of me, so be it. I'll be wrong. But that's the way I feel." (Sookie Stackhouse)

One of the most wonderful, and the most appalling, things about Eric loving me was that he didn't give a shit about anyone else.

I stopped for a moment, biting the inside of my cheek. This was the hardest part. I want to be first. I know that's selfish, and maybe unattainable, and maybe shallow. But I just want to come first with someone. If that's wrong, so be it. I'll be wrong. But that's the way I feel.

It must be one of the worst things in the world, to see your child revealed as a selfish little sadist.

I want to be first. I know that's selfish, and maybe unattainable, and maybe shallow. But I just want to come first with someone. If that's wrong of me, so be it. I'll be wrong. But that's the way I feel.

You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!

In their gestures and faces there were anxieties, affection, agony of heart - all for a man who had wronged them - had never really behaved towards either of them anyhow but selfishly.