Quotes about Selfishness

Envy is the offspring of pride,

Every soul is surrounded by an atmosphere of its own—an atmosphere, it may be, charged with the life-giving power of faith, courage, and hope, and sweet with the fragrance of love. Or it may be heavy and chill with the gloom of discontent and selfishness, or poisonous with the deadly taint of cherished sin. By the atmosphere surrounding us, every person with whom we come in contact is consciously or unconsciously affected.

Thus Esau despised his birthright." In disposing of it he felt a sense of relief. Now his way was unobstructed; he could do as he liked. For this wild pleasure, miscalled freedom, how many are still selling their birthright to an inheritance.

But humans want to usurp the place of God, making themselves the center of the Story.

This is an empire called "narcissism.

For Dawkins, evolution is a battle among genes, each seeking to make more copies of itself. Bodies are merely the places where genes aggregate for a time.

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants is back the minute it begins to rain.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

these people would indeed only be concerned for themselves, for their egoism, just like the bandit, from whom they are distinguished only by the absurdity of their means.

I dont work with collectives. I don't consult, i don't co-operate, I don't collaborate.

A truly selfish man cannot be affected by the approval of others. He doesn't need it.

Aren't they all acting on a selfish motive—to be noticed, liked, admired?" "—by others. At the price of their own self-respect. In the realm of greatest importance—the realm of values, of judgment, of spirit, of thought—they place others above self, in the exact manner which altruism demands. A truly selfish man cannot be affected by the approval of others. He doesn't need it.