Quotes About Selfishness

Home is a place where we all do as we please - usually regardless of the others.

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

I used her and she used me, but neither one cared, we were getting our share.

The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.

Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.

If your selfish goal will be useful to humanity, then let your selfish goal be triumphant!

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

I don't pull out because... it's not my problem.

You gotta look out for number one, but don't step in number two!

If we get a 3D printer at the office, the first thing I'm printing with it is a new 3D printer just for me!

Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish.

The really great man is often considered selfish by a large group of people who are connected with him and who feel that he might bestow upon them more benefits than he does.

What's the matter with the world? Why, there ain't nothing but one word wrong with everyone of us, and that's selfishness.

Greed has always been humanity's downfall

Human beings are obscured by their desire to have and their greed to own preventing their natural cause of "being

When feels that someone puts you aside, sometimes thinks in an act of selfishnessbut always its really to have afraid of something worst.

She had done everything he wanted, and tonight it didn't matter. He was the man who preferred the empty room all along. Not these things, not these children, not her. He wanted his steak and his wine and his Scotch, and a young waitress he could bully to bring it to him, and after that, where he slept didn't matter.

We can always take but never give.

I jumped right to the heart of the matter and preached the taproot of sin, which is found in the middle of the word, itself—I! I want this, I want that, and I want it right now. I want to run things, I want to call the shots, I want be in charge. . .

If you live to a certain age, you'll always have regrets. Most of them will be selfish.

At first it upset me to realize how many people are, at heart, selfish. Now I take that in stride, but people's loneliness still gets to me.

Even with all its positive attributes, capitalism in its imperialistic form is the most treacherous system mankind ever devised. It is driven by a selfishness that has an almost religious underlining to it."