Quotes About Selfishness

Were all his better actions only so many Pharisaic sops thrown one by one into the mouth of a Cerberus of selfishness, monstrous and insane? Was

To put it bluntly, your flesh is a weasel, a poser, and a selfish pig. And your flesh is not you.

I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.

What you love is your own love. It's not love, it's selfishness. It's not me you think of, but what you feel about me.

Knowledge of my atrocious selfishness, settled on me. All those bitter home truths she had flung at me, right from the beginning…and still loved me; was so blind that she still loved me. One day she had said: When you love me (and she had not meant "make love to me") it's as if God forgave me for being the mess I am; and I took it as chicanery, another emotional blackmail, to make me feel essential and so give me a sense of responsibility towards her.

and, without question, first place when counting assholes per square foot.

Greed is a strange animal

This is what a self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.

pitch. This is what a self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.

That's the problem with people, Kanan said. They never need help on your schedule - only theirs.

My love has made me selfish. I cannot exist without you. I am forgetful of everything but seeing you again -- my Life seems to stop there -- I see no further. You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving -- I should be exquisitely miserable without the hope of soon seeing you.

Health and spirits can only belong unalloyed to the selfish man—the

The modern conservative is not even especially modern. He is engaged, on the contrary, in one of man's oldest, best financed, most applauded, and, on the whole, least successful exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. It is an exercise which always involves a certain number of internal contradictions and even a few absurdities.

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... & ... Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative. –

At the same time King David had told how God's truth was written in nature for men to read, he had also begged to be kept free from 'the great transgression': doing wrong when one believes one is doing right. How easy, when one followed the promptings of the traitorous heart, to convince oneself that pure selfishness is the ultimate selflessness, that desire is fate, that murder is self-sacrifice.

We spent that summer in complete selfishness, I'm happy to say. The people in the world who could be selfish in the summer of 1942 were a small band, and I'm glad we took advantage of it.

Fear began to break down the community of the city. Trust broke down. Signs began to surface of not just edginess but anger, not just finger-pointing or protecting one's own interests but active selfishness in the face of general calamity. The hundreds of thousands sick in the city became a great weight dragging upon it. And the city began to implode in chaos and fear.

I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning selfishness.

It is a shame that the very people who used education to clamber out of the disadvantages they had grown up in, have drawn up the ladder after them.

To care only about your pain and suffering, and disregard the emotional toll of others is hypocritically sub-human.

Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.

Arrogance makes one victim of self pride and inflicts with the fondness of selfishness to the degree that nothing will satisfy the arrogant except false flattery and fake praise.

I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle.

I may be a little jealous, I may also be a bit selfish but thats because I found something so precious and so amazing and I dont want anyone else to have YOU but me.