Quotes About Selfishness

Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.

Have I never understood you, Katherine? Have I been very selfish?' 'Yes ... You've asked her for sympathy, and she's not sympathetic; you've wanted her to be practical, and she's not practical.

That man, she thought, her anger rising in her, never gave; that man took.

All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live.

Only that saner selfishness, which Education teaches men, can find the rights of all in the whirl of work.

God help him, but it was easy to pretend he was a better man when Naomi was writhing and coming apart in his arms. It was easy to deny his deep dishonour at having given in to his own selfish needs and desires with her…and the guilt of being unable to regret it.

The biggest noisemaker is your ego, your tendency to attach to things as me or mine.

She snuck a guilty peek at Matt. She didn't want to be selfish, she didn't want to hurt him, but music was who she was. If she didn't have that, she didn't have anything. As long as she was going to let him have it back eventually, surely he could survive sharing part of his valley until she remembered how to sing?

Spoiled, she saw in retrospect, but does anyone ever realize they're spoiled until the spoiling ends?

Wanting to play God for your own private purposes, whatever they are, might be what getting greedy is

I put my own feelings before what was right for you, for us. And I shouldn't have done that. Seriously, I fucked it all up.

He was beginning to think Mr Piper the philosophy teacher was right: man was not born good, he was just out for himself, and when he got the chance he would laugh at those less fortunate, those unlucky ones who kept on flunking French.

Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.

Focus on yourself -- do what you want, when you want, without having to consider anyone else's agenda.

when personally affected by the issues, even idealists often end up making selfish choices with far-reaching effects. It's human nature,

Why do we forget the dead? Because they are no longer any use to us. Just as we forget, or push into the background, someone who is ill or bowed down with grief, because, physically or mentally, they have nothing to give us. No one will ever devote himself to you except for what he will get out of it.

When we are afraid of ourselves and afraid of the seeming threat the world presents, then we become extremely selfish. We want to build our own little nests, our own cocoons, so that we can live by ourselves in a secure way.

If I have to choose between you and me - I like me better.

But what was it all about? Ego, that's all. There was no love there. Just a lot of drinking and a lot of ego. Both of them will kill you. They

feel very bad about it now. I wasn't an abusive father, but I started getting a little neglectful, and Mary was too good a woman, too easy on me. Then at some point, I just joined that other culture and I stopped coming home. But I brought cash over every single week. If I did good, Mary did good. I was a selfish bastard. I thought I was doing good by giving money, but I didn't give the kids enough family time. I didn't give my wife enough time.

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, when bequeathed by those who. when alive, would not have contributed.

The machos have migraine: "Not tonight, darling, I love me". (Les machos ont la migraine: - "Pas ce soir, chéri, je m' aime".)

Scrooge's wealth goes to hell.

Now you see, Tom," said Mr. Harthouse (...); "every man is selfish in everything he does, and I am exactly like the rest of my fellow-creatures.