Selfish Quotes

So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first and primal other.

It is absurd to suppose, if this is God's world, that men must always be selfish barbarians.

Trying to get your sexual partner to make a monogamous commitment to you is not a loving thing to do; it's selfish.

I can't say I've seen any formalized white supremacy grow. I was a selfish leader and never trained anybody to train over my group. It scattered when I left.

Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom.

If you want to be wisely selfish, care for others

If there is any selfish angle, then it would probably be me just knocking myself in the head, thinking "Is there anybody here? Am I still able to communicate with other musicians?"

Maybe this is extremely selfish of me, but I do things that I want to make and I don't really care about anyone else when I'm thinking about an idea.

Patriotism is the opposite of selfish individualism.

a society driven mainly by selfish individualism has all the potential for sustainability of a collection of angry scorpions in a bottle.

Every man has his own reason for every deed. Usually it is selfish.

.. the voice of nature and experience seems plainly to oppose the selfish theory.

Advertising is the place where the selfish interests of the manufacturer coincide with the interests of society.

I feel it's selfish when you don't use your voice, because then you're just relishing the attention - you're not using it for good.

Though there are still many good people out there in the world, it seems that they're vastly outnumbered by the stupid, selfish, violent ones.

I think perfect love is any time you love unconditionally, without selfish intent, without concern for personal gain.

People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness.

Today many of these selfish politicians are preying on the nation itself - (belching corruption and farting discontent!)

Being heartbroken is like having this really horrible freedom. You can be selfish with your thoughts, which can lead to manic creativity, but at the same time you're just really miserable.

It was selfish what I asked her to do, even if it wound up being the most unselfish thing I've ever done.

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.

Think about all the selfish non-smokers out there, driving around on asphalt, drinking water out of the tap, not even thinking about how smokers' taxes help pay for it all.

Men ... are so conservative, so selfish, so boresome, and ... they are so ugly, and ... they are gullible, anybody can convince them.

Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.

Try not to be four years into a relationship when it suddenly dawns on you that the guy you're with is a big, selfish jerk.

If I give more to myself, I can ask more from myself. Self-regard isn't selfish.

The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted.

To write an album takes so much focus and selfish time, to just write and think about your life. For me. Maybe not for other people.

You don't make me feel like you used to. That's why I'm leaving That's why people leave each other They come to their senses and get selfish again.

All of the things that the bible warns you of being: jealous, covetous, murderous, selfish, etc., that's kind of how humans are.

When leisure is a selfish luxury, its very activity, when it stirs, is apt to be only a kind of indolence taking exercise, that it may the better digest its selfishness.

The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.

I'm selfish when it comes to work. I'm like, "Oh, that will be fun! I wanna do that!" I never think beyond my participation in a project.

I'm sorry I kissed you- it was selfish and it upset you- but you can't ask me to pretend I didnt want to.

The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.

A lot of comedians are selfish.

I'm really excited about our DJ set. That's probably the most exciting of all. It's selfish but it's always your own thing that you're most concerned with.

I didn't do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me - does that sound selfish?

Man is known to be a selfish, as well as a social being.

Secrets are inherently selfish. The longer you keep them, the harder it is to put yourself in other people's shoes about them and the more irrational your thinking surrounding it becomes.

Improvisation has been with me since I was a kid, and, taking a selfish pleasure from that, I just thought, "What the hell. It might as well be something other people enjoy."

At first it upset me to realize how many people are, at heart, selfish. Now I take that in stride, but people's loneliness still gets to me.

As much as it's awful to learn about all the greedy and selfish decisions that some people make, I know there are many more people who have good intentions.

Unhappiness is selfish, grief is selfish. For whom are the tears?

The only selfish life is a timid one.

Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity.

I think my heart is quite selfish. If I followed my heart, I would not be a good person. But I have moral principles. I have to sit down and reflect.

i hate leaving places i love i was never at one place long. am i selfish?

The more our hearts and minds are turned to assisting others less fortunate than we, the more we will avoid the spiritually cankering effects that result from greed, selfishness and overindulgence.