Quotes About Selfishness

self-righteousness flows with great solemnity

La falta de fe en los hombres, el mezquino instinto que los impulsaba a buscar garantías, aun en la caridad.

El tiempo, medido en dinero, es la droga más efectiva que existe. La dosificamos de forma cicatera y egoísta para dar la espalda a cualquier mínimo atisbo de sinceridad.

E para de falar porque volta a descobrir uma verdade universal que esquece todos os dias quando se deita. O mundo é conduzido por medíocres, egoístas e idiotas. Sobretudo estes últimos

Luego se detiene, pues vuelve a descubrir una verdad universal que olvida cada día cuando se acuesta. El mundo está manejado por los mediocres, los egoístas y los idiotas. Muy especialmente estos últimos.

Vain people can't bear to be crossed. They are the center of their world, and if circumstances don't allow the world to meet their needs, then the circumstances need to be changed. Their actions appear proportionate to them because any situation where their needs aren't being met is an affront.

People use people according to their own needs. Or don't use them. When a primary need is one of safety.

To me, egotists seem bloated, flatulent. They watch out for number one, peer down their noses at you, and tend to be jealous or envious. (Still, egotists usually have varying capacities for empathy and love compared to narcissists, who're typically more incapacitated in these areas.)

La guerra nos hace egoístas, sólo ansiamos seguir viviendo un día más —respondió él.

I just don't like greedy, indifferent, selfish lawyers. And there are not that many of them.

It's true that being in an individual sport, you have to be a little bit selfish.

I rarely indulge in sweet things but when I do I do not like to share.

Economics is sometimes associated with the study and defense of selfishness and material inequality, but it has an egalitarian and civil libertarian core that should be celebrated.

Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.

Actors are inherently self-centered.

Since the 70s and the 80s you see the rise of neoliberalism. The central dogma of neoliberalism was that most people are selfish. So, we started designing our institutions around that idea, our schools, our workplaces, our democracies. The government became less and less important.

Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.

But then, as I read somewhere recently, narcissists always hurt the one they love the most.

The signs accumulated. But I did not respond. I would not wake up. We will not wake up. This terrifying sleep of denial. Is it an underlying belief that we as a human species are not worth it? Do we secretly feel we have lost our right to be here in all our selfishness and stupidity, our cruelty and greed?

There is, however, a far more common ailment among us—and that is pride from the bottom looking up. It is manifest in so many ways, such as faultfinding, gossiping, backbiting, and murmuring, living beyond our means, envying, coveting, withholding gratitude and praise that might lift another, and being unforgiving and jealous.

You put us through all that for a book? Why' 'Well number one: He had it and it's mine. And number two: It's mine and he had it.

I have been blinded, as many of us have been blinded by our needs. I had thought of only my family--this was the limit to my responsibility, and therefore, my vision. -Istak

An egoist is someone who doesn't think about me...

The light is always there; we ourselves cause the obscurity, for we cast very long shadows: selfishness, envy, vanity, fear, unkindness—the list is endless, and we can all add to it. . . . I do not think that in this world, we can help casting shadows, but perhaps by conscious effort—through prayer and hard work—we can, during our lifetimes, shorten the shadow and increase the light.