Selfishness quotations

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◆ I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.

- Christopher Hitchens99

◆ People don't want other people to be people.

- Gene Wolfe99

◆ Betrayal is an ironic thing. He or she betrays you then you betray yourself. You think you're showing strength with your anger, but in reality you're showing how much you still care.

- Shannon L. Alder99

◆ When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.

- Criss Jami99

◆ God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.

- William Nicholson99

◆ One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order to first assure personal fortification is not selfish, but to elude needless self-destruction; martyrdom is only practical when the thought is to die, else a good man faces the consequence of digging a hole from which he cannot escape, and truly helps no one in the long run.

- Mike Norton99

◆ Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?

- Cormac McCarthy99

◆ Here I am going to say something which may come as a bit of a shock. God doesn't necessarily want us to be happy. He wants us to be lovable. Worthy of love. Able to be loved by Him. We don't start off being all that lovable, if we're honest. What makes people hard to love? Isn't it what is commonly called selfishness? Selfish people are hard to love because so little love comes out of them.

- William Nicholson99

◆ Nobody knows you as well as our spouse. And that means no one will be quicker to recognize a change when you deliberately start sacrificing your wants and wishes to make sure his or her needs are met.

- Stephen Kendrick99

◆ You have a good heart and you think the good thing is to be guilty and kind but it's not always kind to be gentle and soft, there's a genuine violence softness and kindness visit on people. Sometimes self-interested is the most generous thing you can be.

- Tony Kushner99

◆ We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.

- Booker T. Washington99

◆ There should always be one more cat than person, so everyone has one to pet, and I have two to myself. ?

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ I bought you a gift. It's something I've always wanted, but I'm not quite sure you'll like it. So if you don't want it just tell me and I'll be happy to keep it. After all, I'm only interested in making you happy. ?

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ Some people dont know the difference between thinking for yourself and thinking of yourself.

- Vikrant Parsai99

◆ He who wants everything every time will lose everything any time.

- Vikrant Parsai99