Quotes About Selfishness

by those who want to feel good about themselves without being put to the inconvenience of doing something.

qui siedo sempre come un maestoso cazzo fra duoi coglioni. [...I always sit here like a majestic prick between two balls.]

Il (l'homme) ne te donnera jamais que ce qui ne lui est bon à rien, et te demandera toujours ce qui lui est utile.

After all your years climbing around in people's heads like a cranial janitor, do you think people know why they do things? People rationalize, they turn their delusions into something romantic that they can disguise as ethics or principles or ideals. People are selfish, Doctor- odiously, monstrously, but in so small and paltry a monstrousness that we barely notice it.

conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority.

Avarice, the sphincter of the heart.

The worst quality in a man is a really big ego - that would turn me off.

People who take more than their share usually feel an inflated sense of entitlement.

However democratic and egalitarian we kid ourselves into thinking society might be, I think that sense of entitlement operates as basically and viciously as it always did.

naturally pursuing a higher level of joy in old age is a principle of the human body and a principle of nature. That's why selfish people who are still obsessed with their desires even into old age seem ugly.

Tanto le cegaba a uno la felicidad como para no percatarse del dolor ajeno?

Wasn't there something inherently selfish about confessions, anyway? The guilty party's chance to purge their guilt. Never mind that another person got flattened in the process. Ignorance was bliss. No pain in not knowing.

Blame, I guess, is a heavy burden to indulge. Forgiving my father doesn't make me miss my mother any less, or change the fact that I long to have her in my life now, for selfish reasons, I admit. Maybe that's the hardest thing to accept about being an adult. The fact that things happen to us in this world that we simply have no control over. Or any ability to change the outcome of.

It happens the world over - we love ourselves more than we do the one we say we love. We all want to be Number One, we've got to be Number One or nothing! We can't see that we could make ourselves loved and needed in the Number Two, or Three, or Four spot. No sir, we've got to be Number One, and if we can't make it, we'll rip and tear at the loved one till we've ruined every smidgin of love that was ever there.

You try to be selfish because you're afraid of letting anyone too near. To guard themselves is the way of people whose instinct is to nurture and protect. - Kadar den Arnaud

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion.

Selfish thoughts are born from a mind bent on its own profit. And when you think only about your own profit, you will not think twice about how you harm others. In the end, you will create perversity, generate evil, and even destroy your own body.

Her vanity did not worry him since he profited by it so much;

I'm just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else's. I'm sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It's disgusting.

Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.

In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.

We're fat, we're greedy, and we don't give a shit. Our religion is TV. Our saviour is Bill Gates. We've learned our lessons well. We know how to put number one first.

Unless we recognize a higher power to whom we are responsible and who observes and knows our actions, we will not transcend the selfishness of our character and the subjectivity of our intellect. If each person is the final arbiter of right and wrong, then 'right' for him or her will be what he or she desires, regardless of its consequences for the other inhabitants of Earth.