Selfish Quotes - Page 33

• I am guilty of a dreadful selfish crime. I have robbed myself of all my precious time

  Robert Earl Keen

  Time Management, Guilty, Crime

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• Our faith should be expressed in working toward a better planet for our children and not the selfish, juvenile hope for a better afterlife for ourselves. I don't think anyone is going to Hell, because it only exists in the minds of people who wish ill will on others.

  Greg Graffin

  Children, Thinking, Ill Will

  "Punk Rockers Knock Christmas". townhall.com. December 20, 2013.

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• As it's your 50th birthday
  The very best of cheers to you
  Truthfully, I'm just being selfish
  Coz now I am so cheerful, too
  Happy, Cheerful Birthday

  John Walter Bratton

  Birthday, Cheer, Age

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• Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentials and capabilities?

  H. Jay Dinshah

  Men, Law, Views

  "Out of the Jungle" (1967); as quoted in "Compassion, the Ultimate Ethic: An Exploration of Veganism" by Victoria Moran, Wellingborough: Thorsons, (p. 31), 1985.

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• I look in a right of property - on the right of individuals, to have and to own, for their own separate and selfish use and enjoyments, the produce of their own industry, with power freely to dispose of the whole of that in the manner most agreeable to themselves, as essential to the welfare and even to the continued existence of society.

  Thomas Hodgskin

  Philosophy, Political, Essentials

  Thomas HODGSKIN (1832). “The Natural and Artificial Right of Property Contrasted. A Series of Letters Addressed, Without Permission, to H. Brougham, Esq., ... by the Author of “Labour Defended Against the Claims of Capital.” [T. Hodgskin. Each Letter Subscribed, “Labourer.”]”, p.24

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• America was built on rugged individualism, and today that has evolved into a culture of narcissism. But God didn't create you to live for you. If you want to follow Jesus, you have to put aside your selfish ambition.

  Rick Warren

  Life, Jesus, Ambition

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• To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.

  Chris Evert

  Tunnels, Tennis, Champion

  "Billie Jean King and Chris Evert reminisce about tennis careers". Interview with Liz Clarke, www.washingtonpost.com. July 18, 2011.

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• The happiest is the man who is not at all selfish.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, He Man, Human Beings

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.113, editionNEXT.com

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• It may be a brief interruption - just a few seconds - but what if someone sitting near you is trying to make a decent bootleg? Did you ever think of that? Now all those street-corner copies are permanently defiled by your so-called 'emergency.' Don't be so damn selfish.

  Brad Pitt

  Thinking, What If, Trying

  "Ask a Basterd: Can I Answer my cell at a movie if it seems urgent?". www.wired.com. July 15, 2009.

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• The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog. He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer; he will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounter with the roughness of the world. When all other friends desert, he remains.

  George Graham Vest

  Dog, Kissing, Men

  "Best Speech; Faithful, Even in Death" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. April 18, 1999.

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• Count your blessings for selfish reasons! Psychological studies show that people who are aware of their blessings and feel grateful for them live longer than non-grateful people, have fewer medical problems such as hypertension, earn more and achieve longer marriages.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Gratitude, Grateful, Blessing

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• Getting up for sadhana in the morning is a totally selfish act - for personal strength, for personal intuition, for personal sharpness, for personal discipline, and overall for absolute personal prosperity.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Morning, Discipline

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• Scientific and technological progress themselves are value-neutral. They are just very good at doing what they do. If you want to do selfish, greedy, intolerant and violent things, scientific technology will provide you with by far the most efficient way of doing so. But if you want to do good, to solve the world's problems, to progress in the best value-laden sense, once again, there is no better means to those ends than the scientific way.

  Richard Dawkins

  Mean, Science, Technology

  "The Evolutionary Future of Man". The Economist, Septermber 11, 1993.

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• Man is the most dangerous, destructive, selfish, and unethical animal on earth.

  Michael Fox

  Animal, Men, Agendas

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• Why would the apostles lie?....Liars always lie for selfish reasons. If they lied, what was their motive, what did they get out of it? What they got out of it was misunderstanding, rejection, persecution, torture, and martyrdom. Hardly a list of perks!

  Peter Kreeft

  Life Changing, Liars, Lying

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• The American people have no idea they are paying the bill.  They know that someone is stealing their hubcaps, but they think it is the greedy businessman who raises prices or the selfish laborer who demands higher wages or the unworthy farmer who demands too much for his crop or the wealthy foreigner who bids up our prices.  They do not realize that these groups also are victimized by a monetary system which is constantly being eroded in value by and through the Federal Reserve System.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• We're a strange animal, so often destroying what we love for selfish ends, and yet tantalized by the sense that there are other choices if only we had strength to make them. In the politics of 400 years ago, we find the same questions we battle with today.

  Roland Joffe

  Animal, Years, Choices

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• Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary.

  David Sloan Wilson

  Groups, Beats, Commentary

  David Sloan Wilson (2015). “Does Altruism Exist?: Culture, Genes, and the Welfare of Others”, p.71, Yale University Press

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• The idea of Macbeth as a conscience-torm ented man is a platitude as false as Macbeth himself. Macbeth has no conscience. His main concern throughout the play is that most selfish of all concerns: to get a good night's sleep.

  Mary McCarthy

  Good Night, Sleep, Men

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• It is not selfish to be happy. It is your highest purpose. Your joy is the greatest contribution you can make to life on the planet. A heart at peace with its owner blesses everyone it touches.

  Alan Cohen

  Heart, Joy, Purpose

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• It's not about the fish; it's not about the pollution; it's not about the climate change. It's about us and our greed and our need for growth and our inability to imagine a world that is different from the selfish world we live in today.

  Jeremy Jackson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Greed

  "How we wrecked the ocean". TED conference, www.ted.com. April 2010.

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• War, and more wars, are helping Government to siphon the earnings of its people into its treasury for its own selfish purpose, which is to rule the people for the Government instead of for the purpose of serving the people. When will the people see that the very taxes they pay are building a power to be used against them?

  Walter Russell

  Peace, War, Government

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• Selfishness so often is the basis of money problems, which are a very serious and real factor affecting the stability of family life. Selfishness is at the root of adultery, the breaking of solemn and sacred covenants to satisfy selfish lust. Selfishness is the antithesis of love. It is a cankering expression of greed. It destroys self-discipline. It obliterates loyalty. It tears up sacred covenants. It afflicts both men and women.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Loyalty, Real, Men

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• You're too damn selfish!

  Owen Hart

  Wwe, Damn

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• Millennials are often portrayed as apathetic, disinterested, tuned out and selfish. None of those adjectives describe the Millennials I've been privileged to meet and work with.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Adjectives, Millennials, Apathetic

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