Joseph D. Pistone Quotes

A lot of comedians are selfish.

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

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

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

I'm selfish.

me-firstism

Selfishness is a quality and not necessarily a bad thing.

Growing up, it was uncool to admit that your family had any money. And then, instantly, money was cool. In Reagan's parlance, it was about freedom of the individual, which was freedom to be greedy... individual versus society. There was a weird seduction in that, which I still feel.

The most important word in American, in Western culture, is "I."

Selfishness is the only real atheism.

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

Nobody really cares about what other people think anymore; they're all about themselves.

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

People are more interested in being visible than they are in loving other people.

The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.

From church to Congress, America has become a nation of self-indulgent, what's-in-it-for-me individual freedom seekers.

His fundamental interest throughout his life was himself.

Individualism, one of the great achievements of Western civilization, is now accompanied more and more by such phenomena as fragmentation, solitude, egocentricity and the disintegration of solidarity

All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.

The only one that matters is me. I am the only one that matters.

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

It's all about me, no matter who I'm fighting.

It's my world, and the rest of us are living in it.

I never really look at other people; I just worry about myself.

'The Godfather' is a great movie, but it gives them too much credit. What you don't see is what really takes place: the in-fighting, the lying to each other, the scheming against each other to get power.