Quotes About Selfishness

Communism is a hateful thing and a menace to peace and organized government; but the communism of combined wealth and capital, the outgrowth of overweening cupidity and selfishness, which insidiously undermines the justice and integrity of free institutions, is not less dangerous than the communism of oppressed poverty and toil, which, exasperated by injustice and discontent, attacks with wild disorder the citadel of rule.

En México los políticos han sido, salvo contadas excepciones, una vergüenza pública: su preocupación más importante es obtener beneficios para sí mismos en detrimento del bien común. Lucran con las desgracias de su comunidad en pos de fortalecer o imponer su imagen para propósitos electorales. La

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

So it is customary to see in a mother's ideals and intensity of ambition what is carried out by one or another of her children. According to biographers, the source of success appears to lie in a mother's doting—or in her neglectful selfishness, which forces an offspring out on its own.

I May be selfish, impatient and a little insecure at times. But I just needed my friend.

What's yours is mine and what's mine is my own.

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

Everyone is an idealist, until the issue affects them. I knew I was going to do what I had to do.

Call me selfish, but I want to keep as much of my blood as I possibly can, for as long as I can.

To restore our public schools, we must put an end to the selfish agenda of the union bosses.

I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.

You have this one life. If you keep being selfish and unkind, it's going to come back to you.

Selfish men make the best lovers. They're prepared to invest in the women's pleasures so that they can collect an even bigger dividend for themselves.

The best belongs to me and mine; and if we are not given it, we take it: the best food, the purest sky, the most robust thoughts, the fairest women!

I've pushed several women in front of violent situations. My rule is save myself first.

Most people are weak and frightened, and run from anything which could be upsetting. Most people, also, are takers and not givers.

Some people will only "love u " as much as they can use u. their loyalty end's where the benefits stop

Most people don't have real friends. You have people in your life waiting for opportunities to see what YOU can do for them.

The 20th century has been marked by cynicism, selfishness, greed, and the desire to please, all without changing the status quo. In the 21st century, we must resurrect solidarity and compassion.

This is an important thing: People who live in the mainstream and the status quo think that everyone else is there to serve them.

As a dancer, I know couples that have stayed married but separated to dance on different continents. Dance in general, but ballet in particular, is such a finite career. You can't do it later in life, and it's something that I think a dancer has to have some selfishness to fulfill.

And what voices! A sort of over-fedness, a fatuous self-confidence, a constant bah-bahing of laughter about nothing, above all a sort of heaviness & richness combined with a fundamental ill-will—people who, one instinctively feels, without even being able to see them, are the enemies of anything intelligent or sensitive or beautiful.

A hypocrite is in himself both the archer and the mark, in all actions shooting at his own praise or profit.

But sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience.