Quotes of: Selfish-people Keyword

From this it follows that con-sideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital for goodness and want of consideration for other people makes human beings selfish, regardless for other people's good.

Morarji Desai

People have evolved into something selfish, greedy and intolerant. People are unaccepting, because of religion, race, gender, sexual orientation... I've seen it in punk clubs, and I've seen it in the world.

Gerard Way

A poem isn't selfish. It speaks to people.

Crossing to Safety

No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

Henry Ward Beecher

Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those they deal with- their "loved ones" or friends or business associates or political rulers- are not merely mistaken, but e...

The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

And, one thing I definitely enjoyed personally, from a selfish point of view, was exploration and going to places that I had never been to before and learning, you know, meeting the people and getting to know, new sights and sounds, etc.

Duane G. Carey

People think if you look after yourself you're being selfish, you know.

Gisele Bundchen

Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to peop...

Sonia Sotomayor

Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing.

Herbie Mann

The abortionist I worked for, he's a very greedy man, a selfish man.

Norma McCorvey

People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

You have to understand: the narrative that people have about business and capitalism is that they are fundamentally selfish, greedy, and exploitative. Of course, I don't agree with that narrative.

John Mackey

It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.

Hugh Hefner

...capitalism satisfied the Christian demand for an institution that channels selfish human desire toward the betterment of society. Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human n...

What's So Great About Christianity

Chance" is just a word expressing ignorance

The Selfish Gene

Good people are not those who lack flaws, the brave are not those who feel no fear, and the generous are not those who never feel selfish. Extraordinary people are not extraordinary because they are invulnerable to unconscious biases. They are extrao...

Shankar Vedantam

But if I decide to decide there’s a different, less selfish, less lonely point to my life, won’t the reason for this decision be my desire to be less lonely, meaning to suffer less overall pain? Can the decision to be less selfish ever be anythin...

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

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

Jack Kevorkian

Selfishness even binds many people,but blindly without having any liking for one another.

Anuj Somany

When you go out there and do the things you're supposed to do, people view you as selfish.

Wilt Chamberlain

Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.

The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary