Quotes About Selfishness

How quickly people can forget you, until they want something from u" and when they are done with you, you are not even a stranger but an invisible person who doesn't even exist.

The national anthem of hell is, "I Did It My Way."

Greed is really the religion of vulgarity.

Anyone who does anything for pleasure to indulge his selfish soul will surely burn in Hell.

One of the worst things sin did for man was to make him selfish, for selfishness cannot love.

The endeavor to change universal power by selfish supplication I do not believe in.

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is best.

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

Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his gods.

The only crime is pride.

Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect

If you want to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you and what people think of you.

How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.

I dont feel like I would be a good mentor. I dont know what I have to offer in that respect. I do this for pretty selfish reasons.

I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two.

What is it to you if I don't want others to want for me, if I want to want myself — if I want the impossible...

Is the wish to escape suffering selfish? It is considered so with suicide. But even less extreme escapes leave wounds in others' lives. The Death of the Heart is not only a study of selfishness, but also a study of the struggle to escape suffering. To whom the damage is done no one wants to ask. This is the question that unsettles me more: Is suffering selfish?

Prudery is a form of selfishness, a means of self-protection made necessary by the strength of one's own desires.

Tobožnja stidljivost i kreposnost oblici su sebi?nosti, tek obi?ni postupci samozaštite koji su potrebni upravo zbog žestine naših vlastitih želja.

Even if I'm being selfish, but I want you to only look at me.

Yet Smith's claim that the selfish human urge to increase private profits is the basis for collective wealth is one of the most revolutionary ideas in human history – revolutionary not just from an economic perspective, but even more so from a moral and political perspective. What Smith says is, in fact, that greed is good, and that by becoming richer I benefit everybody, not just myself. Egoism is altruism.

Ruthless billionaires and small interest groups flourish in today's chaotic world not because they read the map better than anyone else, but because they have very narrow aims.

Egoism is altruism.