I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.
To lust for something is desire turned selfish and gone mad. To embrace God’s passion is desire turned selfless and gone mindful.
The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.
If women and men want to be treated as adults they must begin to act without the childish selfishness that pollutes our world.
Oh, I think I've been entirely selfish with my career. I've done what I wanted to do, and not put myself out for anyone else particularly.
I think we all have a selfish gene which rises to the top, sometimes. But then we're also all capable of a sudden magnanimity.
I was raised on the brothers Grimm, but my favorite fairy tales in the world are Oscar Wilde's - 'The Nightingale and the Rose,' 'The Selfish Giant.' The latter is probably my all-time favorite.
There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move.
It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past.
The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
pretending to be good might be the same with pretending to be right, its just you are selfish on your own because you think only for yourself..
It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature.
There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.
I believe in aliens. I think it would be way too selfish of us as mankind to believe we are the only lifeforms in the universe.
The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.
Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity.
As ecstatic as I was at the birth of my daughter, I felt selfish bringing her, and later my son, into our screwed-up world.
I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.
I considered becoming a priest very seriously. I wanted to travel the world. By the time I turned 16, I realized I was only in it for selfish reasons. And, more importantly, I didn't want to sacrifice the ladies!
False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.
