Sarah Dessen Quotes

All our acts, reasoned and unreasoned, are selfish

We fail to reckon with the reality of human nature. By nature,we are egocentric. Our world revolves around us. None of us is totally altruistic.

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.

Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.

People always choose self-preservation over the greater good, most of the time, with the belief that self-preservation is the greater good.

Majority of minds are warped into the belief of the only person worth helping is themself.

People are selfish, man. They want what they want; they don't care what you want.

Like everybody else, I am naturally selfish, and so I'm going to think about myself.

Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.

I think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records.

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

Most of our social nature is like that of other primates - we're mostly out for ourselves.

Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.

I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.

Short-sighted is the philosophy which counts on selfishness as the master motive of human action.

Remember the people you address are selfish, as we all are. They care nothing about your interests or profit. They seek service for themselves

When Nietzsche praises egoism it is always in an aggressive or polemical way, against the virtues, against the virtue of disinterestedness (Z III "Of the three evil things"). But in fact egoism is a bad interpretation of the will, just as atomism is a bad interpretation of force. In order for there to be egoism it is necessary for there to be an ego.

That what appears to be egoism so often isn't.

It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to live.

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

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

Man is known to be a selfish, as well as a social being.

From now on I'm thinking only of me." Major Danby replied indulgently with a superior smile: "But, Yossarian, suppose everyone felt that way." "Then," said Yossarian, "I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?

Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.