Selfish Quotes

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I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I existed to mean something. — Harry Chapin
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… — Daniel Smith
I refuse to be crude and selfish in any way. — DeForest Kelley
You may call me selfish if you will, conservative or reactionary, or use any other harsh adjective you see fit to apply, but an American… — Henry Cabot Lodge
A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look… — Edmund Burke
I find that the crazy narcissists, the selfish loons are often the most fun to be around, weirdly. — Paul Giamatti
Strikers are egotists, selfish. We have to be. — Romario
It is the liberal philosophy, not the conservative one, that views humans as selfish automatons. — Allen West
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… — Andrew Mason
I look back on my life and have to face the fact that I have been narcissistic and selfish. — James Woods
For myself, suffering doesnt make me a good person; it makes me selfish. Why do we think that people who have less should find it… — Katherine Boo
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting… — George Orwell
The selfish spirit of commerce knows no country, and feels no passion of principle but that of gain — Thomas Jefferson
Of all forms of government and society, those of free men and women are in many respects the most brittle. They give the fullest freedom… — Dorothy Thompson
Democrats (I think to myself) are liberals who believe the people are basically good, but that they need government help to organize their lives. They… — Andy Rooney
Too much law was too much government; and too much government was too little individual privilege,- as too much individual privilege in its turn was… — Woodrow Wilson
It is the supreme test of a system of government whether its machinery is adequate for repressing the selfish undertakings of cliques formed on special… — William Graham Sumner
Love is patient; love is kind and envies no one. Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor rude; never selfish, not quick to take offense.… — Bible
Love is always patient and kind; it is never jealous, love is never boastful or conceited; it is never rude or selfish; it does not… — Bible

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