Quotes About Selfishness

By remaining unmarried, a creature of the female sex becomes void of meaning; selfish and cold, she creates repulsion.

Esistono poi degli individui nati mercenari che non fanno alcun bene agli amici o ai parenti per il fatto che è dovuto; mentre dal fare un piacere a sconosciuti, traggono un pizzico d'amor proprio: più il cerchio dei loro affetti è vicino, meno amano; più si allarga, più diventano premurosi.

That is the way with all of your kind… It is how you are made; you must all strive to claw your way over the backs of your fellow humans during the short time you are permitted in the universe, breeding when you can, so that the strongest strain survive and the weakest die. I would no more blame you for that than I would try to convert some non-sentient carnivore to vegetarianism. You are all on your own side.

Men like Stephen don't cheat because they're missing something at home, Christy-Lynn. They cheat because they're missing something inside, so they take what they want and make it theirs, because they need to fill up all that empty space.

Men like Stephen don't cheat because they're missing something at home, Christy-Lynn. They cheat because they're missing something inside, so they take what they want and make it theirs, because they need to fill up all that empty space. That's what this woman was. A space filler, something he wanted and took. It wasn't about you.

Or, as the American novelist Richard Ford put it: "Angry words are all alike. They all mean, 'What about me?'")

Este esfuerzo por conseguir que cada cual apruebe aquello que uno ama u odia es, en realidad, ambición; y así vemos que cada cual apetece, por naturaleza, que los demás vivan según la índole propia de él. Pero como todos lo apetecen a la vez, a la vez se estorban unos a otros, y como todos quieren ser alabados y amados por todos, se tienen odio unos a otros.

I'm realizing that a lot of people don't really care what happens to other people as long as it doesn't affect them.

You look around, and you think, 'Given the chance, if we can get away with it, people are going to be nasty to each other. They're going to pull up the draw bridge; they're going to draw up the ladder and try to live in this little bubble without giving anything to anyone else - without even receiving anything from anyone else.'

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.

I have to say when a man lives for himself, it's hard to live with him. That's pretty much the story of all my divorces. I've been making records since I was 22 and done things my way, and it's hard for me to compromise. And of course, to have a successful relationship, one has to compromise. Sometimes I'm not good at it.

Our better angels get clouded and we're more selfish than we should be, more anxious or neurotic or desperate or self-sabotaging. Crueler, even. But I do think there's hope for everyone... I think redemption is possible for anybody.

I'm very independent, probably quite selfish, and like being able to disappear at the drop of a hat without having to explain myself - most men would find that a pain, wouldn't they?

When Stuart passed away, I was so young and so selfish about living and having fun.

The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and totally selfish and uncaring of others.

There is little hope of the repentance and redemption of certain some until they have committed one or another of the many wrong things of which they are daily, through a course of unrestrained selfishness, becoming more and more capable.

I never heard of her loving anybody but herself, and I do not think she could have managed that if she had not somehow got used to herself.

To be right with God is to be right with the universe: one with the power, the love, the will of the mighty Father, the cherisher of joy, the Lord of laughter, whose are all glories, all hopes, who loves everything and hates nothing but selfishness.

No good ever comes of pride, for it is the meanest of mean things, and no one but he who is full of it thinks it grand.

Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.

His mother's memory tore at his heart because she had died loving him, when he was too young and selfish to love her in return

Kochany, nie obchodzÄ… mnie nastÄ™pne pokolenia! Mnie chodzi o nas dwoje! - JesteÅ› buntownikiem tylko od pasa w dóÅ' - stwierdziÅ'

And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn't really mean it. But that isn't true. At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think there's no other way of saving yourself and you're quite ready to save yourself that way. You want it to happen to the other person. You don't give a damn what they suffer. All you care about is yourself.

she had died loving him, when he was too young and selfish to love her in return