Quotes About Selfishness

Beauty is wasted on the self-absorbed.

Suffering, he thought later, could rob a man of his empathy, could turn him selfish, could make him depreciate all other sufferers.

Don't ever think you're alone here, We've just been trapped in different hells, And people aren't against you dear, They're just all for themselves.

Its just human nature. People forget past and only care about their present and don't think what will happen in future...

Some people are born empty. All manner of good deeds and patience and loving kindness can't even begin to fill them up.

I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ less in their motives than in the policies they pursue.

Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.

Avarice is patriotic!

True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed.

Desire is the root of selfishness; clear your heart of desire and be selfless. Selflessness is the key to inner peace.

War is utter damn nonsense, a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking malignity on the part of those who don't do the fighting.

They will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have anything they don't have themselves.

The unity of Nigeria will only come if we overcome and overgrow tribe, materialism and selfish human nature.

Selfish act is very tempting but it leaves a permanent dent on your character.

It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness.

The Baby Boomers: whiny, narcissistic, self-indulgent people with a simple philosophy: "Gimme that! It's mine!"

You got to live for yourself, yourself and nobody else.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Only one kind of species of animals bites the hand that feeds them - mankind.

Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.

And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.

Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.