Quotes About Selfishness

The Red Keep shelters two sorts of people, Lord Eddard, Varys said. Those who are loyal to the realm, and those who are loyal only to themselves.

People work together when it suits them. They're loyal when it suits them. They love each other when it suits them. And they kill each other when it suits them.

That brought the smile back to the old woman's face. "This one at least is honest," she announced, "but you, ser … I have known a dozen Westerosi knights and a thousand adventurers of the same ilk, but none so pure as you would paint yourself. Men are beasts, selfish and brutal. However gentle the words, there are always darker motives underneath. I do not trust you, ser.

People talk of "class selfishness". Well, I know something of history, and I never heard of any tyrant, aristocrat, capitalist, slave-holder, buccaneer, middle-class shopkeeper - so absolutely and exclusively governed by selfishness as Trades Union "labour".

Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect

It is warm, I am alive, I am calm and sad, I hardly know why. In this existence so even, so tranquil, and so gentle as I have here, I am in an element that weakens me morally while strengthening me physically; and I fall into melancholies of honey and roses which are none the less melancholy. It seems to me that all those I love forget me, and that it is justice, because I live a selfish life having nothing to do for any one of them.

Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.

I believe in original sin … I know that I'm capable of craving a cold beer in a village of starving kids … I understand that selfishness vies for space in our hearts with compassion …

It's all your fault, Mother,' said Larry austerely; 'you shouldn't have brought us up to be so selfish.' 'I like that!' exclaimed Mother. 'I never did anything of the sort!' 'Well, we didn't get as selfish as this without some guidance,' said Larry.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

Of a rich man who was mean and niggardly, he said, "That man does hot possess his estate, but his estate possesses him."

Pride is seldom delicate: it will please itself with very mean advantages.

Mine is better than ours.

He wouldn't give a duck a drink if he owned Lake Michigan.

God hates those who praise themselves.

The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation.

A memorandum is written to protect the writer - not to inform his reader.

Kad vidiš ovako ?oveka suviše sigurna u sebe i ono što kaže, hitra i slatka na re?i, koji ti nudi što mu ne tražiš, odobrava što kažeš, a ostaje pri onom što je namislio, znaj da je kurva i bezdušnik, i kloni ga se koliko možeš.

Curious that a man as selfish as he should be offering himself to the service of dead dogs. There must be other, more productive ways of giving oneself to the world, or to an idea of the world... But there are other people to do these things - the animal welfare thing, the social rehabilitation thing, even the Byron thing. He saves the honour of corpses because there is no one else stupid enough to do it.

El ego, después de todo, era la raíz de todo mal.

You have absolutely no regard but yourself and your damned kicks. All you think about is what's hanging between your legs and how much money or fun you can get out of people and then you just throw them aside. Not only that but you're silly about it. It never occurs to you that life is serious and that there are people trying to make something decent out of it instead of just goofing all the time.

the workingman, being selfish, wants all he can get in the division. The capitalist, being selfish, wants all he can get in the division. When there is only so much of the same thing, and when two men want all they can get of the same thing, there is a conflict of interest between labor and capital. And it is an irreconcilable conflict. As long as workingmen and capitalists exist, they will continue to quarrel over the division.

I'm quite repulsed by the diva type.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.