William Hazlitt Quotes

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.

I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.

Scarlett O'Hara didn't think she was manipulating. That's just the way she got what she wanted.

Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.

A friend advises in his interest, not yours.

We corrupt the word of truth, and mix ... our doctrine with what is common and cheap... in order to turn the adulteration to our profit, and accommodate ourselves to those who meet us, and curry favor with everyone, becoming ventriloquists and chatterers, who serve their own pleasures by words uttered from the earth, and sinking into the earth, and, to gain the special good will of the multitude

Self-interest speaks all sorts of tongues and plays all sorts of characters, even that of disinterestedness

I don't for one second spend any time thinking about carefully ingratiating myself with someone for the future.

Conscious people fully know who is serving them selflessly and who is trying to create anarchy.

A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.

Strikers are egotists, selfish. We have to be.

There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move.

We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.

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

A lot of comedians are selfish.

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

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults.

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

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

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

No man will work for your interests unless they are his.

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