Quotes About Selfishness

My feelings just started to change. It wasn't all him. It took time, but after time passed I felt something was missing, and I'm selfish, I can only feel like I'm giving more than I'm getting for so long, then things change.

injustice is not caused by an abstraction called "society," as we on the left had maintained. Nor was injustice caused by oppressive races and genders, or solely by our political enemies. Injustice is the result of human selfishness, deceitfulness, malice, envy, greed, and lust. Injustice is the inevitable consequence of our free will as human beings. "Society" is not the cause of injustice. Society is merely a reflection of who we are.

Self-sacrifice ends in pain and death. It is rational selfishness that leads to health, happiness, love, and trust.

One of the unfortunate things about greed ... is that, in the end, it will consume itself.

I have taken advantage of other people's weaknesses in order to cover my own.

He's not doing it to hurt me. I have to believe that. He's doing it to make himself happy which just happens to hurt me.

All the words we use are stripped bare, so that no one ever knows what anyone else is saying, so that all kindness is cruelty, all selfishness generous, all care callous.

it takes only a modest amount of disruption to create an inordinate amount of mayhem. It's not necessary to wreak all the destruction yourself. Just begin with a fair amount and man's stupidity and selfishness will do the rest.

You just take and take don´t you? Out there with your thumb in the air—not a care in the world, just grabbing whatever you can get. Yes, sir, you just take and take until you´re ready to burst. But what about giving? Did you ever think about that? Of course not—you´re too busy taking, Mr. Handout, Mr. Gimmee, Gimmee, Gimmee.

Not giving is no different than taking.

Soy el ser más egoísta del mundo porque quise ser independiente. Eso me alejó de todos, me convirtió en una isla.

The most miserable people in the world are the people who are selfish and self-centered and who won't do anything for the good of others but only for themselves.  These are the ones who are the furthest from the Kingdom of God.  The Kingdom of God is God's all out answer to man's total needs.  The Kingdom of God is something we live.  We know and experience the Kingdom of God only to the extent that we practice it.

His "wickedly selfish" Americans loved to celebrate their "own heritage, and on this condition are content to see others crushed in our midst.

The cynic in Douglass left him saying, "Heaven help the poor slave, whose only hope for freedom is in the selfish hearts of such a people.

I realized I knew nothing. And what I did know, I had cloaked in my own selfish interpretations. In so doing, I had turned the truth into lies.

To many people, free will is a license to rebel not against what is unjust or hard in life but against what is best for them and true.

Although the human heart is selfish and arrogant, so many struggle against their selfishness and learn humility; because of them, as long as there is life, there is hope that beauty lost can be rediscovered, that what has been reviled can be redeemed.

But the line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern

Peele gets to the core of what contemporary entitlement looks like—concern with one's personal rights combined with non-interest in one's duties

An awful sense of her deadness, of her soul-blighting selfishness, began to dawn upon her as something monstrous out of dim, gray obscurity.

Carley saw two forces in life--the destructive and constructive. On the one side greed, selfishness, materialism: on the other generosity, sacrifice, and idealism.

Ah wouldn't give uh bitch uh bone if she treed uh terrapin.

I am self-centred. I just adore myself.

The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings. How well I felt this difference when I read your kind, tender letter! To see you thus living in three hearts roused my envy. Yes, you are happy; you have had wisdom to obey the laws of social life, whilst I stand outside, an alien.