Selfishness Quotes

...alone in this city, alone on this sea. The days were strewn about him, he was a drunkard of days....

The first sentiment of man was that of his existence, his first care that of preserving it.

You had once asked me if I was afraid of death. I said I was afraid of not living. I don’t want to e...

Ah, those foolish days, those foolish days when we were unselfish and pure-minded; those foolish day...

Nor was her love for Udayan recognizable or intact. Anger was always mounted to it, zigzagging throu...

That man who lives for self alone Lives for the meanest mortal known.

When the same qualities which we admire in ourselves are seen in others, even though they be superio...

The problem is hedonism. The problem is the preening vanity and selfishness of 'coming out,' of para...

I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.

What you love is your own love. It's not love, it's selfishness. It's not me you think of, but what ...

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, th...

By nature, we get more pleasure from God's gifts then from Himself.

By nature, we get more pleasure from God's gifts then from Himself.

By nature, we get more pleasure from God's gifts then from Himself.

By nature, we get more pleasure from God's gifts then from Himself.

Do you know, I am putting off ending this letter as though the end would be the end of something I w...

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives... I never meant ...

Parents are programmed to want the best for their kids, regardless of what they get in return. That'...

Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesti...

Our minds, unedited by guilt or shame, are not for public consumption, because they would either be ...

In his 1907 retirement address, Joseph Pulitzer urged his successors to always oppose privileged cla...

Take taking from those that give & nobody anywhere will need any more such gifts.

Manifest plainness,Embrace simplicity,Reduce selfishness,Have few desires.

My illness helped me to see that what was missing in society is what was missing in me: a little hea...

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

What Douglas had once seen as the attractive over-confidence of youth, now looked more like unyieldi...

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, a...

Selfishness is blind.

Their arrogance protected them against any liking for their fellow-man, against the slightest intere...

Service is the rent we pay for the life we have been given.

Self-interest lies behind all that men do, forming the important motive for all their actions; this ...

But then, I knew so little about my mother over the last decade of her life. I had been too wrapped ...

Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what...

There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists ...

Even the early droplets of selfish decisions suggest a direction. Then the little inflecting rivulet...

It was only that she wanted him to be happy, resenting, however, his inability to be so with things ...

The trouble with Clare was, not only that she wanted to have her cake and eat it too, but that she w...

Mine mine mine. That was the curse and power of human beings—that what they saw and loved they had t...

Society. I felt as though even I were beginning at last to acquire some vague notion of what it mean...

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Up to the present man has hardly cultivated sympathy at all. He has merely sympathy with pain, and s...

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energ...

If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mi...

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

In the end, even the “yes” to love is a source of suffering, because love always requires expropriat...

To love can mean 'to love oneself,' and often love is no more than a juxtaposition of two solitudes.

Did you close that part of your life, Drizzt Do'Urden? And now are you afraid because it might again...

Is the selfishness of children really so different from our own? During the summer in the country we...

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.Listen to it carefully.

One might almost define intelligence as the level at which an aware organism demands, 'What's in it ...

It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a s...

It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a s...

It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a s...

It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a s...

When you get born your father and mother lost something out of themselves, and they are going to bus...

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but ...

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Back inside, I’m shown an antique cabinet in which members of the community, famous for their homegr...

I don't want you to leaveWhich is exactly why I should. But don't worry. I'm essentially a selfish c...

Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfis...

People who are depressed at the thought that all our motives are selfish are [confused]. They have m...

...the human animal is a selfish beast...

Many individuals are so constituted that their only thought is to obtain pleasure and shun responsib...

What a strange sort of love, to be entirely free from that quality of selfishness which is frequentl...

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gate...

We are not only contingent beings, dependent on the love and will of a Creator whom we cannot know e...

The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole...

One of the effects of original sin is an instinctive prejudice in favour of our own selfish desires....

[Dona Maria] saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-g...

Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without fe...

Far rather would she that he were dead! She could not sit beside him when he stared so and did not s...

Why--?" he jerked his thumb in the direction of the young, "when they're so lovely--"She too looked ...

She actually said with an emotion that she seldom let appear, "Let me come with you," and he laughed...

It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because...

I have nothing to do with others, I am only concerned with myself. I take advantage of the fact that...

The generation that destroys the environment is not the generation that pays the price. That is the ...

She [Ayn Rand] had to declare that....altruism was despicable, that only self-interest is good and n...

Of all the vices which degrade the human character, Selfishness is the most odious and contemptible....

Here I am going to say something which may come as a bit of a shock. God doesn't necessarily want us...

God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness...

The instructive admonitions, “give an account of thy stewardship,“—“occupy till I come;” are forgott...

Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that...

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never h...

You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a r...

She's very selfish. Not exactly self-centered, but totally indifferent to everyone and everything. D...

To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit in...

Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give ...

That she had loved Sylveste because he was such a self-important bastard and made something noble of...

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

We do not have feelings which change us, but feelings that suggest to us the idea of change. Thus lo...

O young girl, throw yourself again into the water so that I might have a second time the chance to s...

Perhaps what I am about to say will appear strange to you gentlemen, socialists, progressives, human...

Oh, mankind, race of crocodiles! How well I recognize you down there, and how worthy you are of your...

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

It is an infirmity of our nature to mingle our interests and prejudices with the operation of our re...

As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a...

It was because all we wanted was each other's constant love and attention and for no one else to rec...

Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only prais...

[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrai...

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.