Afrikan Aleksandrovich Spir Quotes

Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.

Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.

Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.

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

Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.

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

The world is so competitive, aggressive, consumive, selfish and during the time we spend here we must be all but that.

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.

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.

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

To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

Our true passions are selfish.

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.

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.

I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.

I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.

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.

We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all.

The flesh, or human nature, is generally lazy and self-centered.

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!

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

I was taught in school that I have to look out for number one. That was against everything that I intuitively felt.