Quotes About Selfishness

income, income is what these patriots want! Mother, father, God—they'll sell them all for money, the ambitious Judases! It's all ambition,

People can certainly be beastly about the things that affect them least, can't they?

Deep down, it seemed, many Americans were convinced that a gain for others was a loss for themselves.

Because it was a selfish prayer, and selfish prayers don't get answered.

In ethics [Aristotle] had two bright ideas. First, that extreme behavior of selfishness and self-sacrifice don't work for most people; look for the golden mean. Second, good behavior is not a result of either sudden inspiration or harsh control. It is a habitual pattern, which means slow and steady conditioning: 'One swallow does not make a summer,' nor does one good deed make ethical behavior.

After I asked him what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the cost to others, to win advancement.

i want you to know this waz an experiment to see how selfish i cd be if i wd really carry on to snare a possible lover if i waz capable of debasin my self for the love of another if i cd stand not being wanted when i wanted to be wanted & i cannot so with no further assistance & no guidance from you i am endin this affair this note is attached to a plant i've been waterin since the day i met you you may water it yr damn self

States have no goodness. They suppress these villains here and promote those villains there, with no aim but self-aggrandizement.

Once people get the idea that it's all right to take what you want and destroy the rest, who knows when they'll stop.

Attention : A la guerre Comme en temps de paix, L'égoïsme aveugle Fait plus de victimes Que tous les autres fléaux Semence de la Terre : le Livre des Vivants

Professional men, they have no cares; Whatever happens, they get theirs.

Nothing is real to us but hunger, nothing sacred except our own desires. Shrine after shrine has crumbled before our eyes; but one altar is forever preserved, that whereon we burn incense to the supreme idol, - ourselves. Our God is great, and money is his Prophet!

By far the most significant consequence of "selfish capitalism" (Thatch/Blatcherism) has been a startling increase in the incidence of mental illness in both children and adults since the 1970s.

Was there any more repellent sight, Harriet wondered, than a silly, self-centred, greedy woman clad in the skin of a beast so much more splendid than herself?

The most evil creatures dont desire the destruction of everythingthey only desire to exploit it for themselves.

Humanity? Don't be silly. I know. It is knocking down your fellow-men for the sake of your own happiness.

It seems that when people are in a state of euphoria, they don't always notice the suffering of others.

Regardless of the cause, those in charge always seemed to be seeking power and glory for themselves.

To have done a rather horrible thing, and think that one can be forgiven with just the phrase 'I'm sorry,'—one would have to be a selfish person with no consciousness of their own wrongdoing.

Lord Hamlet, maybe you alone are the evil one. You insert yourself where everyone is living peacefully and amicably, and you spout complex reasoning and attack everyone, making them suffer, saying that in this world only your love is pure and devoted.

A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.

A sentimentalist is one who delights to have high and devout emotions stirred whilst reading in an arm-chair, or in a prayer meeting, but he never translates his emotions into action. Consequently a sentimentalist is usually callous, self-centred and selfish, because the emotions he likes to have stirred do not cost him anything.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

selfishness brings with it a surprising power of invention, it tends to create its own ontology.