Quotes About Selfishness

There are people, even now, who manage to elude rightminding to the point where they enjoy their pleasures more if somebody else suffers to provide them.

A snake never shares what she knows unless it serves her own purposes.

Farweather just wanted what she wanted. She did what she felt like doing. She didn't care who got hurt, and she didn't feel social responsibilit to mitigate the harm, or seek compromise, or balance her needs against the needs of others.

Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.

As Tristan left the darkroom he heard Lacey's soap opera voice. "And so our two heroes part," she said, "blinded by love, neither of them listening to the wise and beautiful Lacey"—she hummed a little—"who, by the way, is getting a broken heart of her own. But who cares about Lacey?" she asked sadly. "Who cares about Lacey?

Fear made people greedy and therefore selfish; that small minority who honestly did not care for themselves in that way, who could sincerely say that money was unimportant to them, almost always had no dependants.

Everyone, she understood, was mainly and mostly interested in themselves.

Vei r?mâne o hien?",exclam? demonul care îmi încisese fruntea cu o cunun? de maci superbi."DobândeÅŸte-Å£i moartea,cu toate poftele tale,cu egoismul t?u ÅŸi cu toate p?catele tale grele!

Tengo planes más atractivos: mujeres, cigarrillos, restaurantes. Cosas así. De modo que, puestos a ello, es mejor que mueran otros. Entonces

Éste es un país rico, desde luego, dotado por la naturaleza. Pero todo lo chupa el desagüe de la vanidad, la codicia y la injusticia.

Otra hubiera sido la historia de nuestra desgraciada España si los impulsos del pueblo, a menudo generoso, hubieran primado con más frecuencia frente a la árida razón de Estado, el egoísmo, la venalidad y la incapacidad de nuestros políticos, nuestros nobles y nuestros monarcas.

Greed can destroy so much," Sir Montague nodded.

The man who chooses to act pro bono suo, thereby turning a rule that was right into a wrong. that man is to be deemed a tirant, the wise king said, who, using the progress, wellbeing, and prosperitie of those he governs as a praetext, replaces the cultus of his people by that of his owne person, becoming thereby a fereful and fallacious pelican. His diabolical cunning turns those very men he doth claim to liberate into slaves.

We are born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.

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

The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others.

Exploit or get exploited.

Morals are taught & preached not for the sake of heaven, but to assist those people on earth who have everything they need & more to retain their possessions & to help them to accumulate still more. Morals is the butter for those who have no bread.

Men that are great lovers of themselves, waste the public.

People who were more concerned with themselves and looking good to their readers then they were with the characters sacrificed a series for the sake of a story.

I guess the Reagan era is defined as the 'I want it all for me, and screw everybody else' era.

I think the main focus in America is - is basically greed.

We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all.

I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I existed to mean something.