Selfish Quotes - Page 17

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

  Faraaz Kazi

  Today, Corruption, Politician

  Faraaz Kazi (2012). “Truly, Madly, Deeply!: Memoirs of a Broken Heart's First Love!”, p.171, Faraaz Kazi

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• In fact we do not try to picture the afterlife, nor is it our selves in our nervous tics and optical flecks that we wish to perpetuate; it is the self as the window on the world that we can't bear to thinkof shutting. My mind when I was a boy of ten or eleven sent up its silent scream at the thought of future aeons -- at the thought of the cosmic party going on without me. The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise of the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

  John Updike

  Party, Boys, Opposites

  1989 Self-Consciousness, VI. 'On Being A Self Forever'.

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• Sociotropic voters with biased economic beliefs are more likely to produce severe political failures than are selfish voters with rational expectations.

  Bryan Caplan

  Expectations, Political, Voters

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• Men are beasts! Nothing more! We fight! We kill! We devour our prey! Beasts do not stand behind beasts, little prince... They use each other so long as it suits their own selfish purpose!

  Gangrel

  Fighting, Men, Long

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• Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Ambition, Purpose, Individual

  C.J. Mahaney (2008). “Humility: True Greatness”, p.27, Multnomah

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• It was humanly impossible for the disciples to free themselves from their selfish pursuit of self-exaltation, just as it's impossible for us to free ourselves from the very same sins.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Exaltation, Impossible, Sin

  C.J. Mahaney (2008). “Humility: True Greatness”, p.31, Multnomah

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• We cannot free ourselves from pride and selfish ambition; a divine rescue is absolutely necessary.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Ambition, Pride, Divine

  C.J. Mahaney (2008). “Humility: True Greatness”, p.31, Multnomah

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• I'm selfish, I think. I think an artist has to be. I'm not worried about what people think. I play the parts that I find interesting. It'd bother me more to be just pigeonholed into doing what people think is ethical or that's boring to me. I don't pick parts with that in mind, I just find interesting stories. If it's interesting to me, then I do it.

  Denzel Washington

  Artist, Thinking, Play

  "Denzel Washington Remembers 'Malcom X' And 'The Wizard Of Oz'". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. March 1, 2013.

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• Strikers are egotists, selfish. We have to be.

  Romario

  Strikers

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• Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact.

  Athol Fugard

  Creativity, Facts

  "I'm a storyteller, that's all" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2002.

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• Science is a victim of its own reductive metaphors: 'Big Bang,' 'selfish gene' and so on. Richard Dawkins' selfish gene fitted with the Thatcherite politics of the time. It should actually be the 'altruistic gene,' but he'd never have sold as many books with a title like that.

  Charles Jencks

  Book, Bangs, Titles

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• "Mine ain't a selfish affection, you know," said Mr. Toots, in the confidence engendered by his having been a witness of the Captain's tenderness. "It's the sort of thing with me, Captain Gills, that if I could be run over - or - or trampled upon - or - or thrown off a very high place -or anything of that sort - for Miss Dombey's sake, it would be the most delightful thing that could happen to me."

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Running, Missing

  Charles Dickens (1890*). “Works”

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• Notwithstanding his very liberal laudation of himself, however, the Major was selfish. It may be doubted whether there ever was a more entirely selfish person at heart; or at stomach is perhaps a better expression, seeing that he was more decidedly endowed with that latter organ than with the former.

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Character, Expression

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.54

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• Old Mr. Rarx was not a pleasant man to look at, nor yet to talk to, or to be with, for no one could help seeing that he was a sordid and selfish character, and that he had warped further and further out of the straight with time.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Men, Interesting

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Dickens Ultimate Christmas Collection: The Greatest Stories & Novels for Christmas Time: A Christmas Carol, Doctor Marigold, Oliver Twist, Tom Tiddler's Ground, The Holly-Tree and more (Illustrated): The Best Loved Christmas Classics in One Volume”, p.568, e-artnow

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

  Joan Bauer

  Hate, Long, Leaving

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• Most of the time, the things that really change the world exist for something fundamentally selfish and then the world-changing ends up being a side-effect of that.

  Andrew Mason

  World, Sides, Ends

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• It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.

  Rose Kennedy

  Tragedy, Concern, Oneself

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• A point has been reached where the peoples of the Americas must take cognizance of growing ill-will, of marked trends toward aggression, of increasing armaments, of shortening tempers--a situation which has in it many of the elements that lead to the tragedy of general war.... Peace is threatened by those who seek selfish power.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Ill Will, Tragedy

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.9, Best Books on

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• ... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire into extreme privacy, so that it is more easily believed in by those who construct a selfish old gentleman theoretically, than by those who form the narrower judgments based on his personal acquaintance.

  George Eliot

  Gentleman, Vices, Morality

  George Eliot (1873). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life. By George Eliot ....”, p.354

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• Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction.... In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism, which has been gradually compromised away into one of legality. It holds out the hope of heaven and the threat of hell, as the appointed and appropriate motives to a virtuous life - in this falling far below the best of the ancients, and doing what lies in it to give to human morality an essentially selfish character.... It is essentially a doctrine of passive obedience; it inculcates submission to all authorities found established.

  John Stuart Mill

  Christian, Lying, Fall

  John Stuart Mill (1950). “Utilitarianism, liberty, and representative government”

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• What you cannot have is a gene that sacrifices itself for the benefit of other genes. What you can have is a gene that makes organisms sacrifice themselves for other organisms under the influence of selfish genes.

  Richard Dawkins

  Sacrifice, Benefits, Influence

  Faith and Reason - PBS, www.pbs.org.

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• The term revolution means: a sudden, radical, and complete change from the way things are normally done. I love that definition because I really feel that in order for us to start walking in the kind of love that Christ commanded us to - the "love your neighbor as yourself" kind - it's going to take a radical change in our current behavior. The church has become passive and selfish and it's going to take a revolution to get us back to the place where we are not just talking the talk, but walking in a love that shows the world Christ's love.

  Joyce Meyer

  Love You, Mean, Order

  Source: www.vaughnstreet.com

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

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Passion, Motherhood

  "Letters of Two Brides". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1841-1842.

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• I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance. I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Women, Jealous, Pygmalion

  George Bernard Shaw (2016). “Pygmalion”, p.29, Xist Publishing

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• It's usually pointed out that women are not fit for political power, and ought not to be trusted with a vote because they are politically ignorant, socially prejudiced, narrow-minded, and selfish. True enough, but precisely the same is true of men!

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Political, Voting

  Tribune (London), 12 Mar. 1906

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