Quotes About Selfishness

this guy ever had an unselfish thought, as my mama would say, it would die of loneliness.

If this guy ever had an unselfish thought, as my mama would say, it would die of loneliness.

From now on, I'm not doing anything I don't want to do! The world owes me happiness, fulfillment and success.... I'm just here to cash in.

All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.

Our own interest is another wonderful instrument for blinding us agreeably.

Conceit is not necessarily a disease. It's more of a weakness.

19The wrong things the sinful self does are clear: being sexually unfaithful, not being pure, taking part in sexual sins,20worshiping gods, doing witchcraft, hating, making trouble, being jealous, being angry, being selfish, making people angry with each other, causing divisions among people,21feeling envy, being drunk, having wild and wasteful parties, and doing other things like these. I warn you now as I warned you before: Those who do these things will not inherit God's kingdom.

The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart.

We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity

Not the bravest. Or the most daring. In Dr. Moorcraft's words, the greatest secret of the Plankholders was simply that, to the best of the army's assessment, they were the ones who cared about no one but themselves.

I suppose it is that sickness and weakness are selfish things and turn our inner eyes and sympathy on ourselves, whilst health and strength give love rein, and in thought and feeling he can wander where he wills.

In selfish men caution is as secure an armour for their foes as for themselves.

It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact. If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.

The very basis of true peace of mind is a benevolent wish to see all the world as happy as one's Self; and from my soul do I pity the selfish churl, who, remembering the little bickerings of anger, envy, and fifty other disagreeables to which frail mortality is subject, would wish to revenge the affront which pride whispers him he has received.

Yes, be selfish, woman—if you haven't learned that, you've learned damn little.

Jealousy is an evil which grows in the womb of ego and is nourished by selfishness and attachment.

I keep what's mine, and I do not share.

You're the only thing I've ever wanted just for me. Selfishly.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

For a government,' said the god, 'is nothing but a mirror of your minds--tyrannical for tyrants--hypocritical for hypocrites --corrupt for those who are indifferent--extravagant and wasteful for the selfish--strong and honorable only toward honest men.

Think selfishly,' Daine said, trying to make these arrogant two-leggers see what she meant. 'You can't go on this way. Soon you will have no forests to get wood from or to hunt game in. You poison water you drink and bathe and fish in. Even if you keep the farms, they won't be enough to feed you if the rest of the valley's laid waste. You'll starve. Your people will starve- unless you buy from outside the valley, and that's fair expensive. You'll ruin Dunlath.

People are jackals, always willing to feed off someone else's kill.

The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he's dying don't give him pity for others.