Quotes About Selfishness

Nunca hagan caso cuando les digan que el Hombre y los animales tienen intereses comunes, que la prosperidad de uno es la prosperidad de los otros. Son todas mentiras. El Hombre no sirve los intereses de ninguna criatura excepto los suyos.

algún modo parecía como si la granja se hubiera enriquecido sin enriquecer a los animales mismos; exceptuando, naturalmente, los cerdos y los perros. Tal vez eso se debiera en parte al hecho de haber tantos cerdos

El recuerdo de su madre le torturaba porque había muerto amándole cuando él era demasiado joven y egoísta para devolverle ese cariño y porque de alguna manera — no recordaba cómo— se había sacrificado a un concepto de la lealtad que era privatísimo e inalterable.

I could see that, over the years, my babies would slowly transform into selfish-dick babies, then selfish-dick toddlers, kids, teenagers, and adults, with me all that time skulking around like some unclean suspect uncle.

Three cars for two grown-ups, I thought. What a country. What a couple selfish dicks my wife and her new husband were. I could see that, over the years, my babies would slowly transform into selfish-dick babies, then selfish-dick toddlers, kids, teenagers, and adults, with me all that time skulking around like some unclean suspect uncle.

There's a confusion in each of us, a sickness, really: selfishness. But there's also a cure. So be a good and proactive and even somewhat desperate patient on your own behalf — seek out the most efficacious anti-selfishness medicines, energetically, for the rest of your life.

Well, I must own that you are not at all goodnatured to your sisters, she said frankly. Not that I blame you for that - at least, not altogether! They seem positively to take delight in setting up your back! I wonder they shouldn't know that pinching at one's brothers is fatal! But whatever you may say you are not a monster of selfishness. You wouldn't be so kind to Jessamy and Felix if that were so.

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

We have to put an end to the culture of selfishness and corruption that allows greedy Wall Street banks and executives to rip off working people without any consequences.

If you look at life with any honesty and intelligence, it's clear that human nature is dark, vile, selfish, and despondent. But I also see a force in human nature, namely grace, that sometimes works against our natural moral entropy.

I'd make a good friend, not mother. I'm too selfish. I think a lot of mothers are selfish and they end up having children, but I don't want to put some small tiny person through that.

This thinking that you can have every single thing you want in life is not the thinking of a feminist. It's the thinking of a toddler.

was a team player only until he was handed the ball. And then he simply had to run with it. The sort of man who could not hand it off, as he ought to, the sort of man who would risk the game to score a point. The wrong sort.

After nearly two years of traveling India's spiritual supermarket I'm still a self-occupied, selfish, pathetic, pessimistic bitch who's dropped any faith at first sign that things aren't going well.

Why do you think people cheat?," I asked. "Because they're bored? Because they can? Because they're selfish and think they're entitled to anything they want? Because they don't think they'll get caught?

concept that to me is totally foreign: looking scruffy is selfish. Not only do you look like a slob but you let down the whole city.

It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart.

But humans want to usurp the place of God, making themselves the center of the Story.

The miserable misery of the miser

Most of the time, the things that really change the world exist for something fundamentally selfish and then the world-changing ends up being a side-effect of that.

Human love is mostly selfishness; all the time it thinks only of the little 'i'. That 'i' is the ego.

For Dawkins, evolution is a battle among genes, each seeking to make more copies of itself. Bodies are merely the places where genes aggregate for a time.

You're so consumed with how much you get, you waste your time with hate and regret.

I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.