Quotes About Selfishness

He'd used her body as an implement of self pleasure without bothering to make sure that Olivia was satisfied, a fact that made Baird angry and disgusted. It was like using a fine musical instrument to play a simple, selfish tune when it was capable of producing a much richer, more complex sound if only you took the time to really master it.

People have evolved into something selfish, greedy and intolerant. People are unaccepting, because of religion, race, gender, sexual orientation... I've seen it in punk clubs, and I've seen it in the world.

Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.

The customer is a remarkably selfish person: He takes the relationship to where the execution is in his favor.

Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.

Humans are incredibly selfish. And in parents, flaws become hyper focused.

I think Don King has always been an idiot in my mind. He's always been about money. I don't think he cares about anything else but himself.

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

Be incredibly, ruthlessly selfish with your equity.

The fawning courtier and the surly squire often mean the same thing--each his own interest.

Private Vices, Public Benefits.

Politics and governments -- they are more than I can understand. Present systems are corrupted by personal ambition. It is all so complicated and insincere. Conditions are much worse now than they were during the war. In 1914 we went into the fight without argument. We finished it with very little, but now, strangely enough, comes all the wrangling, the restrictions, the selfishness.

Die Rettung kleiner Nachen Wird sofort in die Tiefe gezogen: Zu viele Versinkende Greifen gierig nach ihm.

Rejoicing in his absolute authority, the single egoist will exploit it methodically, whereas a mêlée of egoists will bring about a ruinous disorder and a disastrous cleavage, because the contrariety of the appetites to be satisfied will prevent the satisfaction of any single one. Clearly, then, the effect of the pursuit of private ends under cover of the public good will be worse if there are many with a hand in power than if there is only one.

I don't share blame. I don't share credit. And I don't share desserts.

So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community. For too long as a nation, we have been lulled by the anthem of self-interest. For a decade, led by Ronald Reagan, self-aggrandizement has been the full-throated cry of this society: 'I've got mine, so why don't you get yours' and 'What's in it for me?'

As humans, we tend to take the blessings of the gospel—which should lead us to receiving Christ's love and sharing it with others—and instead hoard them selfishly (even violently!) for ourselves. Doing this distorts the gospel from being others-focused to being self-focused.

only in relatively recent times have people decided that "because I want to" is sufficient reason for annoying others. Only in a culture of hyperindividualism would it occur to you to do what you wanted without reference to anyone else—

only in relatively recent times have people decided that "because I want to" is sufficient reason for annoying others.

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. I write about gratitude because I am thankful - for all of it.

Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title.

Children talk themselves out of their convictions as they grow up and become distracted by their huge selfish selves. All the literature is consistent on this point. Children begin to think they've imagined us.