Quotes About Selfishness

I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask none to live for me, nor do I live for any others. I covet no man's soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet.

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.

One ungrateful man injures all who need assistance.

What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.

Men tend to be selfish.

A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

If there's one thing you can say about mankind, there's nothing kind about man.

Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all.

A selfish man is a thief.

Men are not against you, they are merely for themselves.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness.

When security comes, every man for himself

Man is the most dangerous, destructive, selfish, and unethical animal on earth.

Short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things.

Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.

Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.

There is no one so lonely than a man who loves only himself.

The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever.

The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means to his ends or does not acknowledge them at all.

Man is almost always as wicked as his needs require.

Thousands of years ago, the work that people did had been broken down into jobs that were the same every day, in organizations where people were interchangeable parts. All of the story had been bled out of their lives. That was how it had to be; it was how you got a productive economy. But it would be easy to see a will at work behind this: not exactly an evil will, but a selfish will. The people who'd made the system thus were jealous, not of money and not of power but of story.