50 quotes found
“Many individuals are so constituted that their only thought is to obtain pleasure and shun responsibility. They would like, butterfly-like, to wing forever in a summer garden, flitting from flower ...”
“Human beings appear to be sufficiently selfish and calculating to be capable of indefinitely greater harmony and social homeostasis. This statement is not self-contradictory. True selfishness, if o...”
“...only in relatively recent times have people decided that "because I want to" is sufficient reason for annoying others.”
“Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.”
“That she had loved Sylveste because he was such a self-important bastard and made something noble of being a self-important bastard, did it with such utter aplomb that it became a kind of virtue, l...”
“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
“Selfish a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.”
“In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.”
“Each one of us is selfish, including me.”
“But selfish isn't necessarily a bad thing. It only means you take care of yourself and you have to do that to be able to take care of others.”
“Even the early droplets of selfish decisions suggest a direction. Then the little inflecting rivulets come, merging into small brooks and soon into larger streams; finally one is swept along by a v...”
“Selfishness is blind.”
“A man is nothing more than the things he does to get what he wants.”
“Better not to plant seeds of selfishness than try to eradicate them once they have grown into giant weeds. (91)”
“I content myself with the fact that the general system of our trade is a system of selfishness, is not dictated by the high sentiments of human nature much less by the sentiments of love and herois...”
“Some people seem to have a black belt in selfishness... ninja narcissists with no regard to how they impact those around them but at the same time, a master at the art of playing victim.”
“when fertility rates began collapsing in the late 1960s, another demographic transition was occurring, the result of a fundamental restructuring: People no longer put children at the center of thei...”
“A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself.”
“At its core, sinfulness is selfishness. It's enthroning yourself - your desires, your needs, your plans - above all else. You may still seek God, but you don't seek Him first. You seek Him second o...”
“If its the benefit to myself that drives my decisions, I can know that Im driving down a long road with a short bridge.”
