Selfishness Quotes

“When you're comfortable within yourself, you don't care about others' problems or the challenges they face in life. However, when you're in distress, the memories of those you've abandoned leaving in dire situations, come back to haunt you. How selfish humans are!”
― Sanu Sharma, अर्को देशमा [Arko Deshma]

“If virtue must be discarded on the altar of happiness, then so be it.”
― Frances Wren, Earthflown

“These days we don’t notice other people’s selfishness until we’re on the receiving end ourselves.”
― J.G. Ballard, Concrete Island

“She tried to say his name and call to him, but her strength was gone from her.
He saw by her eyes that she knew she was dying, and that her faith was gone and she was afraid. He saw that she did not believe in God, or continuation After death, and that this was the end for her and she would never see him again. She would be a candle blown in the darkness. He saw by her eyes that she knew now he could have saved her had he wanted, but he chose to let her die, and she did not understand.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Julius

“I have a new thing about living, it's not going to be the same any more. It's going to be more wonderful than anything has ever been. I'm so happy.'
[...]
'This will hurt you, of course, but - I can't help that, I can't think of anyone but myself when I'm happy. You said I was always to think of myself.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Julius

“The individual is born good. However, our society is not. This seemingly paradoxical phenomenon is due to the fact that societal norms reward those who are 'selficated', the habitual or normalized mindset to practice selfishness. In other words, selfication is the process by which an individual is habituated into a selfish mode of existence.”
― Billy Poon, The Selficated Society: Why We Are Depressed in the Modern Age and How You Can Break Free from Suffering to Live a Life Worthwhile

“We are selficated to the extent that alternatives prove irrational and normalcy is the temptation to believe there is no other way.”
― Billy Poon, The Selficated Society: Why We Are Depressed in the Modern Age and How You Can Break Free from Suffering to Live a Life Worthwhile

“Selfishness is the way the few grow stronger and the majority grow weaker. When everyone is selfish, no one wins. There will be fewer people who gain power, but for the majority from which that power stems, there will be nothing left to exploit and extract, and that is the dystopian endgame of Capitalism. The process of exploitation is the very element that fuels the cogs of money, and selfication worsens it.”
― Billy Poon, The Selficated Society: Why We Are Depressed in the Modern Age and How You Can Break Free from Suffering to Live a Life Worthwhile

“Thus, the term 'selfication' was born, which is distinctly similar to the word 'medication.' Selfication is medically inducing the selfish mode of behavior as the solution to further appropriate societal control. With such a selfish behavioral set, people become predictable and controllable.”
― Billy Poon, The Selficated Society: Why We Are Depressed in the Modern Age and How You Can Break Free from Suffering to Live a Life Worthwhile

“The more we selficate, the more we become depressed and lonely.”
― Billy Poon, The Selficated Society: Why We Are Depressed in the Modern Age and How You Can Break Free from Suffering to Live a Life Worthwhile

“Our aspirations are too often tainted by our greed, tarnished by the foolishness of our trifling agendas, leveraged by the rot of our biases, infected by adherence to the toxicity of politically-correct propaganda, and misappropriated by our desire for acclaim and acceptance. And the subsequent rot that gorges itself on such aberrant behaviors is veneered thick with lies that incessantly deny that any such rot exists or that it is being liberally fed. Prayer is the single force that has both the potency and capacity to transform our greed into grace, make sacrifice our agenda, bring bias to heel at the feet of a passion to bless, transform the corrosive constraints of politics into an unquenchable thirst to serve, and rest in the fact that if God accepts us no other acceptance is necessary. Prayer is the game-changer. The culture-changer. The life-changer. Make no mistake about it. It is the answer to the desperation of our times and the hope of a future.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“No one was irrationally generous.”
― Anuradha Bhattacharyya, Light Inspired

“The world is being ruined by the 'rich and successful people.' Amassing wealth seems to be the prerogative of these people even at the cost of the environment and betterment of our world.

Don't these 'rich and successful people' realise that it is already time to make amends for their selfishness and moral turpitude?

We the citizens of this world must give these people an ultimatum that they need to stop their businesses from ruining our world.”
― Avijeet Das

“Happiness shared is happiness sacred,
Happiness hoarded is happiness wasted.
Society stands on selfless shoulders,
not on cruelty of the surviving fittest.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“The world is a place where, when push comes to shove, nearly everyone shoves. This maxim can easily be put to the test by riding a crowded subway train during the height of the morning rush hour.”
― George Hammond

“When a person life is a world of complaints, they carry that attitude with them, most things are never as
perfect as they desire. Most people understand, nothing is perfect, and look at the complainer as the seeker of attention or just selfish and unaware. No one likes a complainer. What happens is life's reflection will give this person something to really complain about. The attitude we show the world will
always return to us.”
― Ron Baratono

“We are all connected in so many seen and unseen ways. Which possibly explains why one of the simplest and quickest routes to happiness seems to be to make someone else happy. The reason to be selfless is selfish. Nothing makes ourselves feel better than not thinking of our selves.”
― Matt Haig, The Comfort Book

“I look at the world and ask what’s in it for me.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“Being selfish is not always about money.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, BECOME: Unleash the Power of Moral Character and Be Proud of the Life You Choose

“When, grown older, we look back on the selfishness of the people who’ve been mixed up with our lives, we see it undeniably for what it was, as hard as steel or platinum and a lot more durable than time itself. As long as we’re young, we manage to find excuses for the stoniest indifference, the most blatant caddishness, we put them down to emotional eccentricity or some sort of romantic inexperience. But later on, when life shows us how much cunning, cruelty, and malice are required just to keep the body at ninety-eight point six, we catch on, we know the score, we begin to understand how much swinishness it takes to make up a past. Just take a close look at yourself and the degree of rottenness you’ve come to. There’s no mystery about it, no more room for fairy tales; if you’ve lived this long, it’s because you’ve squashed any poetry you had in you. Life is keeping body and soul together.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

“Revolution and selfishness are interrelated. Sometimes, it happens because the rulers are selfish; sometimes, the protesters are!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“বিপ্লব এবং স্বার্থপরতা পরস্পর সম্পর্কযুক্ত। কখনও কখনও, এটি ঘটে কারণ শাসকরা স্বার্থপর; কখনও কখনও, প্রতিবাদকারীরা!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“What we condemn as vices in animals, we glorify as virtues in humans—deceit disguised as strategy, selfishness wrapped in success, ruthlessness painted as leadership, dominance disguised as control.”
― Renuka Goria

“Least capable people are most selfish.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“Perhaps it’s a tinge of selfishness on my part, a desire for a more exclusive claim on the person who belongs to everyone else just as much as she belongs to me.”
― Nicole Tsopo, Chani's Stone and A Prince of Netherus

“Apes loot and call it victory,
Humans sacrifice and call it life.
While ants hoard all for themselves,
Giants find meaning in giving light.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“Thanksgiving demands that we set aside the cultural narrative and be thankful for all of the things that the narrative says are not enough.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Greatest freedom is freedom from selfishness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“There's a selfishness to you, she said. A mean streak. You're not always very kind to people. I objected to this and took her judgement away to stew over, finally coming to the conclusion that she was right after all and enjoying that, in a childish, contrary way. It became oddly like permission, this acknowledgement - the mean streak, once spoken aloud, a quality I found too easy to excuse in myself.”
― Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

“There is no such thing as a weed, that's a cruel term made up by people who label some plants as 'unwanted' and some as 'valuable', as if the worth of a living thing is measured by how useful it is to another living thing.
-Caz”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop