Quotes About Selfishness

In every stock jobbing swindle every one knows that some time or other the crash must come, but every one hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbour, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in safety. Apres moi le déluge! is the watchword of every capitalist and of every capitalist nation. Hence capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the labourer, unless under compulsion from society.

Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.

The dog, to gain some private ends, Went mad, and bit the man.

Doth any man live more to himself, or less to God, than the proud?

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as one.

Would it be possible to find a more ungrateful boy, or one with less heart than I have!

I am not morally obligated to care more for a man than he cares for himself.

Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.

So long as selfishness makes government needful at all, it must make every government corrupt, save one in which all men are represented.

He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed.

Many people are willing to be God-centered as long as they feel that God is man-centered

Men are beasts! Nothing more! We fight! We kill! We devour our prey! Beasts do not stand behind beasts, little prince... They use each other so long as it suits their own selfish purpose!

I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.

No man profiteth but by the loss of others.

Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights

Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.

Gambling makes boys selfish and cruel as well as men.

As I go about I see a lot of "coffin" men. They have room for themselves and nobody else.

How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.

While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!" "See man for mine!" replies a pamper'd goose.

Man cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.

The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of another.