Quotes About Selfishness

Les imbéciles ne pensent qu'à partager leurs merveilles avec la multitude, ce qui est le plus sûr moyen de perdre son butin, et surtout de le voir se muer en une chose vulgaire.

Everything I had been taught to regard as a vice - and I still regard them as vices - under Thatcherism was in fact a virtue: Greed, selfishness, no care for the weaker, sharp elbows, sharp knees.

Politicians will be politicians, they will have a weakness at times for not seeing beyond their nose.

President Reagan preached 'trickle down economics' but naively did not reckon on the fact that the wealthy would only care about getting more for themselves instead of caring about helping those with less.

Personally, I would miss a wedding. I would miss childbirth. I would miss a bar mitzvah just to see me talk at all.

The poison of selfishness destroys the world.

I admit that I am very possessive.

Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?

I have a responsibility to my fellow my community, to my fellow man, and woman. With that said, I create from a place of selfishness, but I'm also cognizant of potential impact on others. And I try to make that impact positive.

If you are a rich person straining every sinew to keep every last pound in your pocket, there comes a point when you realize you are not just escaping the clutches of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. You are passing a greater burden on to people poorer than yourself, and depriving even poorer people of your support.

Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact.

Sometimes I do think that politicians are only in it for themselves, but actually as Ive got older Ive started to feel less cynical about them.

I don't really give a damn about too much other than myself.

People who can't take advantage of opportunity take advantage of people.

Takers are self-serving in their interactions. It's all about what can you do for me.

Perhaps gaining power doesn't cause people to act like takers. It simply creates the opportunity for people who think like takers to express themselves.

I don't like people who are just takers.

Everybody's out to get something from somebody. 'Gold diggers' doesn't just mean money, it can mean time, it can mean feelings. It can mean anything when you're taking and not giving. When people don't know how to reciprocate.

Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.

To use good things to our own ends is always a false religion

The winners are the schemers and the ruthless who take what they want, not the suckers standing around hoping for an even break.

When the Right proclaims that socialism has failed, and that capitalism is the only alternative, the cultural Left has little to say in reply. For it prefers not to talk about money. Its principal enemy is a mind-set rather than a set of economic arrangements –– a way of thinking which is, supposedly, at the root of both selfishness and sadism.

suppose we as children are selfish by nature, judging our parents in the context not of their worlds and challenges but of our worlds and how they meet our needs. Even as we mature we rarely think of them as having been young like us.

They're too busy building monuments to themselves.