John Heywood Quotes

Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat.

Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.

Those who joined us for selfish personal reasons, for a career or other motives will be the ones to leave.

I am a very selfish person.

Be incredibly, ruthlessly selfish with your equity.

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.

I feel like a lot of people would quite easily stab you in the back once they get what they want. And you see that in people.

Theodore betrays his friends for his own ambition.

The very men to whom the whole country looks to set an example …to accept … the personal inconvenience, are doing exactly the reverse …. They are cackling like wet hens to hold their special privilege.

Beware of all men who would turn the tasks and the necessities of the nation to their own private profit or use them for the building up of private power.

The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle.

As to [Aaron] Burr, there is nothing in his favour … he is bankrupt beyond redemption except by the plunder of his country. His public principles have no other spring or aim than his own aggrandizement…. He is truly the Cataline of America.

We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.

An elite is someone who's for themselves and not for the country.

I was always pretty selfish.

You should never bury someone to forward your own personal interest. And I would never do that to anyone else on the planet.

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

All our acts, reasoned and unreasoned, are selfish

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

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

Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.

One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up.

The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism... Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness.

If all I cared about was me, I could make a million. And that's what they will never understand.

Any who may wish to profit himself alone from the knowledge given him, rather than serve others through the knowledge he has gained from learning, is betraying knowledge and rendering it worthless