Quotes About Selfishness

Kakvo sam to govno bio ja? Umeo sam ocigledno da igram neke prljave, nestvarne igre. Šta me je teralo na to? Yar sam pokušavao da proturim svejedno kao nešto? Da li sam mogao i dalje da govorim sebi kako je to u suštini stvar istrazivanja, prosto jedna studija zenskog roda? Jednostavno sam pustio da se stvari dešavaju, bez razmišljanja o njima. Nije me bilo briga ni za šta osim za svoje sebi?no, jeftino uzivanje. Pravi razmazeni srednoškolac.

If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you, what people think of you; and then to you nothing will be pure. You will spoil everything you touch; you will make sin and misery for yourself out of everything God sends you; you will be as wretched as you choose.

He longed to marry Rose Salterne, with a wild selfish fury; but only that he might be able to claim her as his own property, and keep all others from her. Of her as a co-equal and ennobling helpmate; as one in whose honor, glory, growth of heart and soul, his own were inextricably wrapt up, he had never dreamed. Marriage would prevent God from being angry with that, with which otherwise He might be angry; and therefore the sanction of the Church was the more probable and safe course.

A hardship mentality can make us narrow and defensive. A success and prosperity mentality can make us selfish. An attitude of thankfulness to God, for what He gives us, can make us truly generous.

There's always some idiot who thinks that after the revolution they'll be the one sitting on top of the hill of corpses, dining on caviar served out of a bowl made of a chromed baby's skull.

Selfishness is the most constant of human motives. Patriotism, humanity, or the love of God may lead to sporadic outbursts which sweep away the heaped-up wrongs of centuries; but they languish at times, while the love of self works on ceaselessly, unwearyingly, burrowing always at the very roots of life, and heaping up fresh wrongs for other centuries to sweep away.

I think marriage becomes a great mirror. My selfishness comes out in my marriage all the time.

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.

Drugs, alcohol and ego. They are a bad mix.

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.

I was extremely greedy and lost my moral compass.

Power, greed, and perhaps more than anything, ego, are powerful emotions and motivators.

Most of our social nature is like that of other primates - we're mostly out for ourselves.

You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

Again, wherever there were tyrants, their habit of providing simply for themselves, of looking solely to their personal comfort and family aggrandizement, made safety the great aim of their policy, and prevented anything great proceeding from them; though they would each have their affairs with their immediate neighbors.

Everyone in this world acknowledges as truth only what is convenient for them. They have no other way of living.

I'm a snake. My skin is cold. I have no heart. I slither…looking for prey with the tip of my tongue. I swallow the people I care about whole. That's the kind of creature I am. Don't you remember?

Because of your heart, you hate. Because of your heart, you have a dark side. Because of your heart, steal. Because of your heart, you get angry. Because of your heart, you scorn others. Because of your heart, you feel rage. Because of your heart, I want you all to myself.

But if Marx errs, his error does not lie, as his critics often allege, in underestimating "innate human selfishness." Instead, his error—and, again, it is the common error today—lies in the other direction, in underestimating the capacity of subjects to act against their self-interest.

He was a person whose universe was very small indeed. It held only one person, himself, surrounded by things whose sole function was to be manipulated for his amusement or profit.

Of all selfish bastards, a selfish bastard who likes to be liked is probably the worst. Never

the false promises of digital technology and social networking. It wasn't bringing us together; it was making us lonelier and more selfish, less connected to our flesh-and-blood neighbors.

be a certain percentage of citizens who will try to strip-mine and suck dry everything they can