John Dryden Quotes

There is a number among us, young and old, of all sorts almost among us, that swarm up and down towns, and woods, and fields, whose care and work hitherto hath been like bees, only to get honey to their own hive.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

I believe I was extremely greedy.

Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else. We don't need to look far and wide to find examples of gluttonous behavior, as they are numerous throughout the history of capitalism.

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive nature away from the heart of man.

I can eat two large pizzas and a tray of brownies in one sitting. I'm not sharing that. We can get another one, but I ain't sharing.

Avarice fills its purse at the expense of its belly.

The natural life in each of us is something self-centred, something that wants to be petted and admired, to take advantage of other lives, to exploit the whole universe.

Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples.

The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.

Take whatever you can from others, and when there is nothing left, forget about them.

To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.

A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.

Selfishness and self-absorption are deadly charm-exterminators.

The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibilit y for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires

[Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed.

The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.

I'm sayin', why spend mine when I can spend yours?

He who lives only for himself is truly dead to others.

Selfishness is much more than an ordinary problem because it activates all the cardinal sins! It is the detonator in the breaking of the Ten Commandments.

Greed is the assumption that it is all for my consumption.

Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.

In short, selfishness is the opposite of love.

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

Selfishness is the only real atheism.