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Selfish Quotes

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Of course, the idea of a six months' holiday is enough to make anyone laugh at anything, but I find that besides that I was a good deal harassed and run down, and I am glad to cut off from everything and start fresh. I feel miserably selfish about it all the time.
Richard H. Davis

On a selfish basis, I really enjoy sports and activity.
Alan Thicke

Our true passions are selfish.
Stendhal

People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests.
James Bovard

People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable.
Mick Jagger

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

Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
Erich Fromm

Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.
Edward Albert

Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.
Richard Pryor

Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.
Leigh Hunt

That's why charity work is very selfish at the same time, because it makes you feel good.
Maria Menounos

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

The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner?
George Stephanopoulos

The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.
Francis Wright

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
Pope John Paul II

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
Florence Nightingale

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.
Charles E. Trevelyan

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.
Bryant H. McGill

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.
Daniel Smith

Those who joined us for selfish personal reasons, for a career or other motives will be the ones to leave.
Janos Kadar

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