Quotes About Selfishness

Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.

People always tend to chose what is best for them. They pretend to be unselfish, all so that they can feel good about themselves. Even that really is a selfish decision.

What's good for the very rich might not be good for anybody but them.

I've gotten very good at detaching whenever I have to go away for three months, which I realize is hard on friends and kind of selfish.

Though there are still many good people out there in the world, it seems that they're vastly outnumbered by the stupid, selfish, violent ones.

Democracy is threatened by the inertia of good people, by the selfishness of most people, and by the evil designs of a few people.

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.

I don't want to have to start being unselfish again. The great thing about being on your own is you do what you damned well like.

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Never forget - happiness ends when selfishness begins.

Happiness is egotistical.

The main cause of suffering is egoistic desire for one's own comfort and happiness.

Why are you unhappy?Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself—and there isn't one.

The ego is the ultimate conspirator.

To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness.

It's almost selfishness, taking care of your mental health. You can't just not do it.

Actually, if you take the average American, and studies have shown that, he is really concerned only with private affairs; that is to say, with his health, his money and family affairs.

Look around you: there is not a doctor who desires the health of his friends, not a soldier who desires peace for his country.

Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you." -Rhett Butler

Link had to make the decision to save himself.

Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equalled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism.

The secret of every discord in Christian homes and communities and churches is that we seek our own way and our own glory.