Quotes About Selfishness

Some do not want to create rich experiences for others, others lack the ability to do so, but most just want to experience being rich, with little to no other experience.

Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.

Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed for more, or out of fear of poverty and need.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

I suspect that much of our praying to be used is selfish, and underneath it is the sneaking desire to make our mark and be recognized.

Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification.

'A reality shaped around your own desires' - there is something sociopathic in that ambition.

It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good.

There are still a lot of people who have the expectation that they're entitled to everything and want to pay for nothing.

Entitlement is lethal.

Some people are thoroughly self-centred. This thing goes with me. I need it for moral support.

In Obama's America, the wealth creators are greedy, selfish, and materialistic while the wealth stealers are the most morally wonderful people in the country.

Summing up, we can see that the progressive pitches about greed, selfishness, and inequality are basically diversions. They seek to deflect us away from the core issue, which is that the creators of the wealth are the ones who deserve the wealth they have created. To put it in primitive terms, the farmer who grew the crops gets to keep the crops and the hunters who killed the deer get to eat the deer.

Selfishness comes from poverty in the heart, from the belief that love is not abundant. We become selfish when we believe that maybe tomorrow we won't have any pizza but when we know that our heart is a magical kitchen, we are always generous, and our love is completely unconditional.

Personal Importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about me.

As a human, I am flawed in that it is difficult for me to consider others before myself. It feels like I have to fight against this force, this current within me that, more often than not, wants to avoid serious issues and please myself, buy things for myself, feed myself, entertain myself, and all of that.

The trouble with deep belief is that it costs something And there is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like the truth at all because it carries responsibility, and if I actually believe these things I have to do something about them. It is so, so cumbersome to believe anything. And it isn't cool.

I turned out the light and lay in my bed and thought about the girls I had dated, the fear I have of getting married, and the incredible selfishness from which I navigate my existence.

We are a nation of egoists. It is our glory, but it will be our destruction, for none of us can be made to concern ourselves about something as abstract as "the common good".

He doesn't care that Bunny is dead. I could forgive him if that was why he felt this way, but it isn't. He wouldn't care if we killed half a dozen people. All that matters to him is keeping his own name out of it.

Society is a codependent group of narcissistic hypocrites without mirrors.

Pride makes us rest content with ourselves—think we are good enough as we are—keep us from taking advice—refuse the gospel of Christ—turn every one to his own way. But pride never reigns anywhere so powerfully as in the heart of a young man.

Orwell. Wrote a book that said that a totalitarian society sustains itself by the basic selfishness of everybody. When the chips were down, his hero and heroine betrayed each other.

A lot of women are users. Sex is a means to an end, not a romantic thing. They'll give you a little, but not because they love you.