Clare-Hope Ashitey Quotes

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

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

When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.

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

To me, personally, an ideal society would be a world where only I and those I care for exist.

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.

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

A lot of comedians are selfish.

For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.

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.

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

Most of our social nature is like that of other primates - we're mostly out for ourselves.

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

Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you.

When someone says, 'I'm not political,' I feel like what they're saying is, 'I only care about myself. In my bathtub. Me and my bathtub is what I care about.'

I think most people act in their self-interest.

He is loyal to his own career but only incidentally to anything or anyone else.

Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.

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

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

Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and alien growth from the body.

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

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

Economic Man faces a merciless world alone and unaided, his hand against every other's.