Quotes About Selfishness

Why is it that so many people think all the answers are in their wallet?

Mankind's obsession with money and greed has them going down a one way street to their demise.

Greed, one of the badliest capital sins, is not good, is not good for knolege, love, money. Greed "the capital sin" is necessary

When Greed makes to money number one priority, it trust nobody

Selflessness is like waiting in a hospital In a badly-fitting suit on a cold wet morning. Selfishness is like listening to good jazz With drinks for further orders and a huge fire.

Every selfish man, strangely enough, becomes a self slayer

The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness.

Maybe coming clean is the ultimate selfish act. A way to absolve yourself by hurting someone who doesn't deserve to be hurt.

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

A lot of music comes from a selfish place.

It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature.

Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.

Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.

Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.

For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.

After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.

I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.

Like nature itself, modern economic life is driven by relentless competition and unbridled selfishness. Or is it?

Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal Lust Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel; And, like the blast of Pestilential Winds, Taints the sweet bloom of Nature's fairest forms.

The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.

Besides, you're a cat. It's your nature to think you're the center of the universe.

But the bottom line is that, as humans, we are by nature selfish creatures. The only way we care about anything, really, is by making it about us.

What is the nature of egoism? It spends away everything in its power!

Man is an extremely complex creature: he usually acts in an unselfish manner for selfish reasons.