Quotes About Selfishness

Nature wants to propogate our race. What else would it want. We, however, are vain and gullible enough to convince ourselves that it has our happiness in mind.

C'est l'égoïsme de l'homme qui seul veut enterrer la femme comme un trésor. Toutes les tentatives ont échoué qui ont voulu introduire — par des cérémonies consacrées, par des serments ou des contrats — la durée dans ce qu'il y a de plus mouvant au sein de la mouvance de l'être humain, dans l'amour.

When people pleasers go too far in their pleasant ways, they may inadvertently be guilty of encouraging others to continue in selfish or disrespectful behavior. Instead of receiving kind gestures with a spirit of gratitude, some people respond with an attitude of entitlement.

He needs a wife who will love him enough to tell him the truth and to respectfully challenge his selfishness, his self-absorption, and his self-deception.

In some marriages, trying harder does not engender a reciprocal response. It has the opposite effect. It feeds the fantasy that the sole purpose of your life is to serve your husband, make him happy, and meet his every need. It feeds his belief of entitlement and his selfishness, and it solidifies his self-deception that it is indeed all about him.

Selfishness isn't characterized by knowing how you feel or what you want; selfishness is when you demand that other people always cater to your feelings, your wants, and your needs.

Everyone knows that where there is something that is capable of giving profit, then exploited it will be.

Nothing is too unreasonable nor too unkind for selfishness, acted upon by vanity.

No one gets punished for anything. We do whatever we want, and that's all we do, and nobody stops us, and nobody cares.

Don't bother much about your feelings. When they are humble, loving, brave, give thanks for them; when they are conceited, selfish, cowardly, ask to have them altered. In neither case are they you, but only a thing that happens to you. What matters is your intentions and your behaviour.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

I don't work with anyone out of a sense of charity. I use people as long as they are useful to me.

The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest.

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

We do not have the idea that all children are valuable parts of society. We only have the idea that our own children are.

I stopped living according to my core values. I knew what I was doing was wrong but thought only about myself and thought I could get away with whatever I wanted to.

Date night? It was always about me and what I wanted to do.

If our ethical code makes a purely arbitrary distinction between humans and all other species, then we have a code based on naked selfishness devoid of any higher principle.

Money is a form of alchemy, [...] it turns kind, normal people into greed-mongers, intent only on acquisitiveness.

She is an unpleasant woman, who seems to think of little besides herself, with few friends and no real talents.

Unhappiness is selfish, grief is selfish. For whom are the tears?

Babies are frightening -- raw tyrants whose only kingdom is their own body.

Humans don't share; we exploit.