Quotes About Selfishness

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. There is no such word as indifference in my apathetic nature.

Conservators, in the words of John Kenneth Galbraith, are "engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy, that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

Men are selfish and don't think about anything else but them self." pg. 45

They are learning a way of feeling connected in which they have permission to think only of themselves.

Consider how the rich countries of the world are filled with hypocritical people. These are the people who complain about children who are starving in Somalia, and speak of the plight of youth in the inner city, speaking as though they are emotionally tortured by these tragedies. But then they refuse to do a thing about it. When they are approached by charities, they give only an infinitesimal fraction of their wealth.

All sufferings come from false pride.

Die Krebszellen waren Menschen in Kleinausgabe. Alles fressen, was ihnen in den Weg kommt, ohne Rücksicht auf Verluste, auch in Kauf nehmend, vor lauter Gier, dass irgendwann der Wirt nicht mehr ist.

If the church addressed is selfishly enjoying the prosperity of the nation and has lost sight of the universal battle, one can apply this passage to urge God's people to get involved in the battle against the evil one in our day and age. If the church addressed is engaged in the battle but is relying on its own strength, one can urge God's people to allow God to work through them, for God fights the battle by empowering his servants.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Kiedy los nam nie sprzyja, w g??bi serca wszyscy jeste?my egoistami i wszyscy wznosimy te same mod?y: tylko nie ja, tylko nie ja, jeszcze nie teraz.

Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else. We don't need to look far and wide to find examples of gluttonous behavior, as they are numerous throughout the history of capitalism.

Bums panhandled instead of getting a job. People dropped their trash on the sidewalk or tossed it from their car windows. All these actions said the same thing: my shit is more important than yours. The world was a self-centered place and he hated it for it.

A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.

Why are you making a joke out of this?" she asks. "Because it's stupid, Nik. There's not even room in my day to think about someone else.

I feel so selfish, because I want the best of both worlds. I want to keep the image I've worked so hard to create.

Tell me what's wrong with society When everywhere I look I see Rich guys driving big SUV's While kids are starving in the streets No one cares No one likes to share I guess life's unfair

All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.

How she loved you, her bubeleh, her boychik, her darling, but there was something cloying in that love, something theatrical and selfish, and you knew it and, as soon as you were big enough, you kept her at a safe distance.

Insanity is a state of profound self-absorption.

We start making every child ambitious, and ambition means you cannot love; ambition is anti-love. Ambition needs fight, ambition needs struggle, ambition needs you to use others as a means.

In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.

The fact is that sin is the most unmanly thing in God's world. You never were made for sin and selfishness. You were made for love and obedience.

The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.

People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.