Sabine Baring-Gould Quotes

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

I'm just selfish. I have to be for what I do.

You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.

There are times where you have to be selfish.

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

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

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

Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.

But I felt that most of us in the world today gave priority to our personal interests.

Every forward is selfish, and any forward who tells you he is not selfish is a liar.

I only pray when it suits my own needs. I'm not proud about that.

I think most people act in their self-interest.

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.

I was taught in school that I have to look out for number one. That was against everything that I intuitively felt.

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

That spirit of freedom, which at the commencement of this contest would have gladly sacrificed everything to the attainment of its object, has long since subsided, and every selfish passion has taken its place. It is not the public, but private interest, which influences the generality of mankind, nor can the Americans any longer boast an exception. Under these circumstances it would rather have been surprising if you had succeeded.

Every time I think of Doug Wilson, I think 'pathetic.' When it comes between something for himself or something for righteousness, he'll choose himself.

Selfishness is a quality and not necessarily a bad thing.

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.

The howl of self-interest is loud ... but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.

Strikers are egotists, selfish. We have to be.

Our true passions are selfish.