50 quotes found
“Too often we want to take stands to elevate us rather than elevate a cause.”
“think about yourself because selfishness is everywhere”
“I gave too much to people.... So much selfish people in life.”
“She was a goddamn unicorn of selfishness.”
“If you think that you are proud of yourself,you do not know what you are thinking.P.C.M. HermansWorldpoet 546October 9, 2016”
“...the human animal is a selfish beast...”
“And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didnt really mean it. But that isnt true. At the time when it happens you do mean...”
“Emotion it self is blindfold. So one second of your life control by emotion it's the definition of selfishness.”
“The trouble with Clare was, not only that she wanted to have her cake and eat it too, but that she wanted to nibble at the cakes of other folk as well.”
“To Love oneself is Ok but,to love only oneself isn't!”
“...and as a result yet today we are unable to distinguish between sympathy and selfishness.”
“If we ignorantly act to solely serve our agenda, were simply slogging around in the egocentric and brackish backwaters of selfishness. Any response that comes out of that kind of cesspool will be v...”
“I don't want you to leaveWhich is exactly why I should. But don't worry. I'm essentially a selfish creature. I crave your company too much to do what I should.”
“Up to the present man has hardly cultivated sympathy at all. He has merely sympathy with pain, and sympathy with pain is not the highest form of sympathy. All sympathy is fine, but sympathy with su...”
“Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.”
“All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.”
“Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.”
“I have freedom. But freedom means total selfishness. It means nobody cares much what you do.”
“The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation.”
“The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.”