Janos Kadar Quotes

He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against.

A friend advises in his interest, not yours.

That was one of the things that interested me about the character. He doesn't want to be a hero, and has no real desire to save the earth or discover aliens. He's sniffing around looking to see what will fall in his lap.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

I only pray when it suits my own needs. I'm not proud about that.

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

You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

I think most people act in their self-interest.

I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.

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

I'm selfish.

When I was a player, I worried only about myself. Good money and easy work.

Each man seeks his own interest, not the general interest. Let his own selfish interests be touched, and all concord is at an end.

Theodore betrays his friends for his own ambition.

That spirit of freedom, which at the commencement of this contest would have gladly sacrificed everything to the attainment of its object, has long since subsided, and every selfish passion has taken its place. It is not the public, but private interest, which influences the generality of mankind, nor can the Americans any longer boast an exception. Under these circumstances it would rather have been surprising if you had succeeded.

We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.

That's what it's all about for Trump. It's always about winning - winning for Trump, by making him look good in each day's reality-television production. It's never been about the country.