Quotes About Selfishness

It gratified all the vicious vanity that was in him;

Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.

I was afraid of a united Church; it makes a mighty power, the mightiest conceivable, and then when it by and by gets into selfish hands, as it is always bound to do, it means death to human liberty and paralysis to human thought.

Bilinç, insan?n iyiliÄŸine kar?? kay?ts?zd?r: kendi arzular?n? doyurmak haricinde hiçbir ÅŸeyle ilgilenmez. Ä°nsan?n iyiliÄŸine yönelik ÅŸeyleri tercih etmesi için eÄŸitilebilir, ama onlar? yaln?zca kendisini diÄŸer ÅŸeylere k?yasla daha memnun edeceÄŸi için tercih edecektir.

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants is back the minute it begins to rain.

I never did get around to praying for myself, did I? Maybe that's what was behind it, though. Myself. Maybe the only reason I'd prayed for others to begin with was to bring myself good fortune. Was that true? Was it?

Some people are born empty. All manner of good deeds and patience and loving kindness can't even begin to fill them up.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Ah what harm? Do what you want and feck everybody else is Johnnypateenmichael's motto.

Over-indulgence blinds us to the truth, turning us inward, making us slaves to our own insatiable desires."11 Don W. King

Stanbrook once told me, he said, that suicide is the worst kind of selfishness, as it is often a plea to specific people who are left stranded in the land of the living, unable for all eternity to answer the plea

Sometimes, one yearns for something.For the ultimate in happiness. I yearn for it,and don't know where to look for it any longer. And I don't know if I would recognize it if I found it. And the longer I look, the more selfish I grow.For I think only of my own happiness. i think I have lost the ability to make someone else happy. If I ever had it. And I suppose we can never be happy unless we can also give happiness.

Well," said I, "you call that love, Mr. Carruthers, but I should call it selfishness." "Maybe the two things go together.

Let me repeat: the crimes of violence committed for selfish personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majoram gloriam Dei, out of a self-sacrificing devotion to a flag, a leader, a religious faith, or a political conviction. Man has always been prepared not only to kill but also to die for good, bad or completely futile causes. And what can be a more valid proof of the reality of the self-transcending urge than this readiness to die for an ideal?

Love...no such thing. Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist. Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that's certain.

Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself.

Very often inertia, selfishness, and vanity play the greatest role in our trust in others; inertia when we prefer to trust somebody else, in order not to investigate, be vigilant, or act ourselves; selfishness when the desire to speak about our own affairs tempts us to confide in someone else; vanity when it concers something that we are proud of.

???? is selfishness, ????? is sympathy.

these people would indeed only be concerned for themselves, for their egoism, just like the bandit, from whom they are distinguished only by the absurdity of their means.

Inspira tal horror el egoísmo que inventamos la cortesía para ocultarlo como una parte vergonzosa de nosotros mismos.

Si en los pequeños asuntos cotidianos, las pequeñeces de la vida... un hombre es desconsiderado y sólo busca aquello que le resulte ventajoso o conveniente, sin importarle los derechos de los demás; si se apropia de lo que pertenece a todos por igual, puede usted estar seguro de que no hay justicia en su corazón y de que sería un villano de talla mayor si no fuese porque la ley y la fuerza le atan las manos.

They were not ministering to God but to the pride of their own hearts.

Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons.

A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.