Quotes About Selfishness

Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

The full humanization of man requires the breakthrough from the possession-centered to the activity-centered orientation, from selfishness and egotism to solidarity and altruism.

La peggiore di tutte le passioni umane, l'impulso a servirsi di un proprio simile per fini egoistici, in nome della propria superiorità, ben poco si differenzia da una forma raffinata di cannibalismo.

Selfishness is not identical with self-love but with its very opposite. Selfishness is one kind of greediness. Like all greediness, it contains an insatiability, as a consequence of which there is never any real satisfaction. Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.

comment persuader nos contemporains qu'en demeurant prisonniers des conceptions tribales de l'identité, de la nation ou de la religion, et en continuant à glorifier l'égoïsme sacré, ils préparent à leurs propres enfants un avenir apocalyptique ?

Love is a curious mixture of opposites, a blend of extreme selfishness and total devotion. A paradox! Besides which, love, everybody is always talking about love, love, but love isn't something you choose, you catch it like a disease, you get trapped in it, like a disaster.

Cheever started rocking back and forth, shaking, and Cambridge made an unhappy little sound. "Oh, son. Pain makes you selfish, did you not know that?

MeilÄ—s kaltÄ—s bus atleistos, nes tyroj meilÄ—j nÄ—ra nieko pikta. Bet jausmingoj meilÄ—j yra tiek pat neapykantos, egoizmo ir apmaudo, kiek ir meilÄ—s.

for the rich pity only each other, no?

with no apparent sub-surface of the mind, no consciousness of others, no recognition of any people, places or situations except in uncluttered direct relation to herself and how it can serve or disserve her." Quite a change

The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no motherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.

Cela istorija je samo jedan ?ovek koji pokušava da nešto oduzme drugom ?oveku, a obi?no to jedno ne pripada nijednom od njih.

Competition exists to choose who gets the prize when the prize can't be shared.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for generations that capitalism and the free market, not the welfare state, produces selfish people.

You act in different ways for your own personal well-being, and you don't think about the people you hurt along the way. wish I would have thought about it.

One of the most painful things in the Western States and Territories is the extinction of childhood. I have never seen any children - only debased imitations of men and women, cankered by greed and selfishness, and asserting and gaining complete independence of their parents at ten years old.

Usually we praise only to be praised.

We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.

Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.

I'm still pretty self-centered, greedy and angry.

It's easy to point out the evil in other people, but that can be found in all of us. That selfishness, that is something we all have in us. Sometimes you are successful at dealing with it, and sometimes you are not.

The definition of an artist, for me, is someone who is quite selfish about their creativity.