Quotes About Selfishness

Everybody's on your side until they need something from you.

The morality of art consists, for everyone, in the side that flatters its own interests. People do not like literature.

Be selfish, stupid and have good health. But if stupidity is lacking, then all is lost. Flaubert's dictum for getting through life unscathed.

No ho feia pas per ell, per bé que ell s'ho cregués així, ans per ella mateixa, per una expansió egoista.

Frédéric n'aima point cette manière de s'associer, tout de suite, à sa fortune. Son ami témoignait trop de joie pour eux deux, et pas assez pour lui seul.

Dom zijn, egoïstisch en gezond, ziehier wat je nodig hebt om gelukkig te zijn. Maar als het eerste ontbreekt, dan is alles verloren.

avec la jalousie d'un artiste et l'égoïsme d'un bourgeois

Zar se ne rugaju onima koji ljube, jer to ljudi smatraju kao sramotu; svatko, od stida ili od sebi?nosti, sakriva ono najbolje i najosjetljivije što ima u duši; da te cijene, moraš pokazivati samo svoje najružnije strane, samo tako možeš da budeš jednak svima drugima.

People say, 'If the Congress were more representative of the people it would be better.' I say the Congress is too damn representative. It's just as stupid as the people are, just as uneducated, just as dumb, just as selfish.

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Grief can be inordinately selfish.

Stan Gibbs claims the story is real." "Does he now?" "Yes." Win rubbed his chin. "Pray tell, why does he not defend himself?" "No clue." "Presumably because he is guilty," Win said. "Man is, above all, selfish. He's into self-preservation. It's instinctive. He does not martyr himself. He cares about one thing above all else: saving his hide.

We don't really care about others, except when convenient. Don't believe it?

Each man seeks his own interest, not the general interest. Let his own selfish interests be touched, and all concord is at an end.

The ruling of men is the effort to direct the individual actions of many persons toward some end. This end theoretically should be the greatest good of all, but no human group has ever reached this ideal because of ignorance and selfishness.

I am a caring person, I will be there for everyone but I am a very self-centered person. My approach towards people is very self-centred.

We lost our minds in the '80s and '90s; we really as a society just felt that everyone could only care about themselves. There was no responsibility to discuss what's going on in your town, your state, your nation. And it was a blast, it was really fun, but it doesn't work.

People are not considerate of others. They tend not to consider themselves as all living together, but see themselves only as individuals.

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

All of us must act selfishly to Iearn charity, must lie to learn honor, must betray and be betrayed to learn to value trust and commitment.

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.

Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.

You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know. You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me and still come with me, and hating me through death and after.