Selfish World Quotes

A person can perhaps trust his eyes only to the amount of truth his heart does not mind to speak openly to the people to touch their souls in this selfish world full of lies.

Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.

When we focus on others, our world expands.

This over-consumption is also manifest in our use of raw materials. It can even be found in our dietary habits... . People are well aware of this. The root of the problem lies in a selfish world view which inflates personal consumption beyond the essential.

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.

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.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere

I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.

You shouldn't punish others for your own choices.

Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant.

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

All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

In this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.

In the early nineteenth century, the doctrine of self-sufficiency came to apply to families as well as individuals.... The familybecame a special protected place, the repository of tender, pure, and generous feelings (embodied by the mother) and a bulwark and bastion against the raw, competitive, aggressive, and selfish world of commerce (embodied by the father).... In performing this protective task, the good family was to be as self-sufficient as the good man.

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.

Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection - or compassionate action.