Quotes About Selfishness

We've been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It's a way of life. It's about greed.

Every ruling class has wanted only this: all the rewards and none of the burdens. The operational code is: we have a lot; we can get more; we want it all.

Why should I limit myself to only one woman when I can have as many women as I want?

If you limit yourself to sexual pleasure it's narcissistic. You don't connect with the other, you take what pleasure you want from them.

Sometimes you have to be selfish to get what you want and move forward in life.

I will take what is mine and keep it for as long as i want

There was a history of entrepreneurialism, but it was getting them nowhere. In fact, it was making things worse. They needed to leverage their scale globally, but as long as country managers were calling the shots and demanding scarce technical resources from the center to fix trivial local problems, the fundamental need for a new technology platform could never be addressed. To hell with entrepreneurialism; it was just an excuse for selfishness and waste.

The great twentieth-century monk Thomas Merton encountered precisely the same spiritual exhaustion partway through his life. The chief source of this exhaustion, he writes, "is the selfish anxiety to get the most out of everything, to be a sparkling

Selfishness is like a disease that suffocates our capacity to love. While love asks us to deny ourselves for the sake of another, selfishness demands we put ourselves first at their expense. When we choose to be self-centered, we become less kind and content—more needy, sensitive, and demanding. More unsatisfiable. Moodiness and impatience, laziness and irresponsibility, are only selfishness in disguise.

Convenience is the gateway drug to entitlement. It drains people of their empathy, because it fosters the illusion that they can proceed through life without hardship. This makes it harder for them to imagine others who are facing hardship.

When old people in power scold children and young people for 'selfishness' if they don't get triple-vaxxed, or if they let their mask slip below their nose occasionally, or try to have some fun in the sun, it's obvious who actually is being selfish.

And I like to keep whatever is mine remaining that way. It's a funny little game to play and it's a slippery slope. I always say to myself I'm never going to give anything away because there's never any point or benefit for me.

I'm very grateful for what I have. I'm old enough that I can mort out at any minute without any sense of regret at all. That's not true. I might look back and think I wish I hadn't been so selfish when my kids were smaller. But I'm not overwhelmed by regret.

When you're dealing with the age of Snapchat, Facebook, and Instagram, then everything becomes very selfish and cynical.

Because I have been so pigheaded and so selfish about so many things for so many years, I've spent a lot of time being, like, 'That person needs to change. This person needs to change.'

I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world,' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy.

Most of our desires are born and nurtured at other people's expense.

Esta sentencia me parece desacertada, tanto más, cuanto que ningún provecho ni ventaja se alcanza sin el perjuicio de los demás.

Ne garip ... insan? öldürmek için gün ?????nda geniÅŸ meydanlar arar?z ama onu yaratmak için karanl?k köÅŸelere gizleniriz. Åžu insan ne korkunç bir hayvan ki kendi zevklerini ba??n?n belas? say?yor. Bizi yaratan iÅŸi hayvanl?k saymaktan daha büyük hayvanl?k m? olur?

The guilty always find a way of rationalizing their behavior, making it sound as though they've done you a favor.

En este mundo, si los cabrones volaran, nublarían el sol.

What causes you to be trapped is what we call personal importance. Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about "me.

If we are selfish and we feel cranky, then we believe that nobody has the right to be happy around us.

We are so selfish that we want the person with whom we are sharing our life to be as needy as we are. We want "someone who needs me" in order to justify our existence, in order to feel that we have a reason to be alive. We think we are searching for love, but we are searching for "someone who needs me," someone we can control and manipulate.