Quotes About Selfishness

Tragedies make you realize how selfish you are.

Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive.

I'm trying to do music which inspires the desire to transcend politics, which has a limited and selfish and egoist and unknowledgable end about what anyone knows about existence.

Transportation and education are two big ones for me. And transportation is selfishly a big issue for me because I drive these roads every day. My family does.

Ah, kako ljudsko bi?e ?uva sebe, štedi sebe, uvijek sebe! Jer bol drugoga nije tvoja bol. Samo tvoja bol te boli, samo tvoja bol se ra?una.

You know what America is-they're all like spoiled children. Anything goes, isn't that what they say?

Lawless are they that make their wills their law

Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.

When the body is filled with ego and selfishness, the cycle of birth and death does not end.

To live true to the vision of the master, we must be as selfish, narcissistic, manipulative, driven, and creative in getting what we want as we can be, not just in our important business actions, but where it really counts: in our hearts.

the taller you are, the more selfish you are.

He saw "the nationalism as of horned cattle", of brute beasts whose highest conception was selfishness based upon a narrow interpretation of history

Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere

A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness.

Selfishness, eager for a heaven of enjoyment, is quite a different thing in the soul from love and purity and truth, yearning together for what is their natural element.

We have lied to ourselves. We have not built this box for the good of our brothers. We built it for its own sake. It is above all our brothers to us, and its truth above their truth.

The reason authors almost always put a dedication on a book is, because their selfishness even horrifies themselves in the end.

Humans are mostly kind only to their own-self, and their own. To another being, they're mostly indifferent, if not inhumane.

Survival is a passive way of saying "my needs are greater than yours.

The 'all-for-me-and-only-me' mentality is the most destructive force on earth.

People are the worst animals," Rider said. "They will do anything to each other. Just to indulge their fantasies.

Personally, I would never help mankind.

Personally I would never help mankind. -John Hammond

when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men, all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views.