Quotes About Selfishness

Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.

Party-spirit . . . which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

It's all about what they can get out of me.

This whole beautiful world will end for you the day you die, then why to bother for others, stay selfish stay happy.

Ambition and thirst for power have a part but greed and greed alone is the reason for a man wanting to swell his ward.

In effect, a selfish and boundless thirst for power and material prosperity leads both to the misuse of available natural resources and to the exclusion of the weak and the disadvantaged.

Glory built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

Avarice is patriotic!

People don't help much.

they ignore all the effects on other members of society than the ones they have in view. They

Thus we might say to such selfish mourners, 'We perceive that if thou couldst but save the life of thy soul from eternal death and damnation, though the glory of God miscarried, thou couldst be pleased well enough.

Whom do I love? I love someone because I expect something from that person. I expect him to behave in a way that I like. The moment he starts to behave in a different way, all my love is gone. Then do I really love this person or myself?

There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.

Good-nature, or what is often considered as such, is the most selfish of all the virtues: it is nine times out of ten mere indolence of disposition.

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that to-day is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.

Too many people don't care what happens so long as it doesn't happen to them.

A PRIME TRUTH - MAN IS SELFISH (Name of chapter)

Unlike the rest of you, I cheerfully admit to my own utter selfishness. I am self-made, self-absorbed, self-serving, self-referential, even self-deprecating, in a charming sort of way. In short, I am all the selfs except selfless. Yet every so often I run across a force of nature that shakes my sublime self-centeredness to its very roots. Something that tears through the landscape like a tornado, leaving nothing but ruin and reexamination in its wake.

Next to the very young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

I had been heaping up my devotions before God, fasting, praying, &c. pretending, and indeed really thinking sometimes, that I was aiming at the glory of God; whereas I never once truly intended it, but only my own happiness. I

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

The greedy and the power-hungry will always look for ways to break the rules, or twist them to their advantage.

If you organize your life around your own wants, other people become objects for the satisfaction of your own desires. Everything is coldly instrumental. Just as a prostitute is rendered into an object for the satisfaction of orgasm, so a professional colleague is rendered into an object for the purpose of career networking, a stranger is rendered into an object for the sake of making a sale, a spouse is turned into an object for the purpose of providing you with love.