Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks he is everything to everyone. We must not judge nature by ourselves, but by its own standards.
Blaise PascalTags: nature death mortality selfishness self-centeredness
Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?
Cormac McCarthyTags: morality selfishness survival the-road cormac-mccarthy altruism
Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present has its pardonable amount of egotism; momentary life has its claims, and cannot be expected to sacrifice itself incessantly to the future. The generation which is in its turn passing over the earth is not forced to abridge its life for the sake of the generations, its equals after all, whose turn shall come later on.
Victor HugoTags: selfishness sacrifice modern-society
Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
Alexandre DumasTags: love selfishness passions
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 HitchensTags: individualism selfishness objectivism ayn-rand libertarianism
[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
AristophanesTags: nature language selfishness character government greed administration voice politicians attributes marketplace barter human-voice demagoguery
Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.
AristophanesTags: injustice wealth selfishness corruption poverty greed politicians self-interest public-service intrigue
Wars come from egotism and selfishness. Every macrocosmic or world war has its origin in microcosmic wars going on inside millions and millions of individuals.
Fulton J. SheenTags: war selfishness egotism
Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.
OuidaTags: selfishness consideration
My hair would continue to gray, and then one day, it would fall out entirely, and then, on a day meaninglessly close to the present one, meaninglessly like the present one, I would disappear from the earth. And all these emotions, all these yearnings, all these data, if that helps to clinch the enormity of what I'm talking about, would be gone. And that's what immortality means. It means selfishness. My generations belief that each one of us matters more than you or anyone else would think.
Gary ShteyngartTags: belief selfish think selfishness immortality aging generation
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