Samuel Freeman Miller Quotes

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

I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.

The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest.

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

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

I'm selfish.

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

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

A lot of comedians are selfish.

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

If you are passionate only about yourself -that is the road to disaster.

We're not all nice, and there are a lot of levels of ambition and niceness.

I think most people act in their self-interest.

me-firstism

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

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

There are times where you have to be selfish.

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.

But the bottom line is that, as humans, we are by nature selfish creatures. The only way we care about anything, really, is by making it about us.

Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.

Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

It doesn't matter who wins if I don't. I only care if I win. I'm jealous of anyone else who wins.

I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!