Quotes About Selfishness

Everybody wants something at the expense of everybody else and nobody thinks much of the other fellow.

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

But why must man suffer and sacrifice for God? At the end of his suffering and sacrifice he will find that though he began to do so for God, it has proved to be for himself. It is the foolishly selfish who is selfish, and the wisely selfish proves to be selfless.

But just as natural disaster brought out the best in some people, it brought out the worst in others.

Here's a news flash--writers are selfish people. Truth is, creative types like me are driven by one impulse--to make up a world in which we get to control everything and everyone. We decide who enters and who exits, what the weather will be, who will hook up with whom, who will win and who will lose. It makes us feel powerful and, in all honesty, has relatively little to do with thinking about what will make anyone else happy.

As the impudence of flattery, so the impudence of egotism.

Who will sacrifice nothing, and enjoy all, is a fool.

Love's a dog in a manger.

Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.

Education will always be torn between two fatalities: apostleship and egoism.

Greed puts out the sun.

There is a simple rule: practice a kind of generous selfishness. Give a book to a friend, but don't lend it, because you will never get it back. ~ James Wood, author of The Book Against God.

Instead, you let your massive ego get in the way. You wanted center stage, the spotlight on you, over everything else, even if staying behind the curtain would have ultimately been in your best interest.

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

Fire is like greed, my comrade. It spreads across the world, thinking only of itself, seizing everything it sees, and ruining everyone's fun.

Busheney," Sunny said, which meant something along the lines of, "You're an evil man with no concern whatsoever for other people.

What Douglas had once seen as the attractive over-confidence of youth, now looked more like unyielding selfishness.

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

I sit on a man's back choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all means possible… except by getting off his back.

Men have always shown greed," Anne continued. "They spread your legs and plant their seed, then pick their nose on the pillow and fart. Your common fool will prove no different.

This restless searching is what's behind the 'me–first' attitude that has characterized recent decades, and it's affecting everyone, from Wall Street to street gangs." She

We preserve ourselves as if that were important, and always at the expense of others. We hoard ourselves. We succeed if they fail, we are wise if they are foolish, and we go onward, clutching, until there is no one—we are left with no companion save God. In

Do you know what Krishnamurti says? Consciously or unconsciously, we are all completely selfish, and as long as we get what we want, we believe everything is all right.

Bennett wasn't like her first husband. After spending so many years with Jeremy, Ivy was finally beginning to realize just how selfish her first husband had been. She had been the giver in the relationship, attending to his every need in the house.