Quotes About Selfishness

All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.

Man, who thinks he knows everything. But what does man know...Man cares only for himself, in his fear and hate.

Every man has his own reason for every deed. Usually it is selfish.

Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides.

Vertue flies from the heart of a Mercenary man.

I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man.

A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.

Avarice is a cursed vice: offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of food, however great his hunger.

I think of the Sixties as being every man for himself.

In proportion as a man is selfish, so far has he receded from the motive which constitutes virtue.

It is common to forget a man and slight him if his good will cannot help you.

Man seeks his own good at the whole world's cost.

The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.

Unless you love yourself, you can't love anybody. Be selfish.

Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money - only for wanting to keep your own money.

False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.

Money is not nice. Money got no friends but more money.

The money to be made is clearly more important than the extinctions we cause, including our own.

Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.

When we lavish our money we rob our heir; when we merely save it we rob ourselves.

Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake.

When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.

We all like to see everybody make a profit... a very little.

[Yahya Khan] thought of nothing but acquiring beautiful cars, building beautiful homes, making friends with bankers, and sending money abroad.