That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended ... civilizations are built up ... excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and cruel people to the top, and then it all slides back into misery and ruin.
Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.
I think that people who don't like animals tend to be selfish, but I'm biased.
Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.
If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.
Marriage is just an elaborate game that allows two selfish people to periodically feel that they're not.
Politics these days is a disgusting game of mudslinging, filled with selfish people with selfish aims.
Even cynical, selfish people will realize, one way or the other, that it's not in their self-interest to act in self-destructive ways.
But I cannot forgive those who did not care about more than their own glory or well-being. They thought they were civilized. They were despicable. Damn them all.
When it comes to my racing career I'm very driven and very selfish. People who are around me at races will know that I'm a different person here than in my personal life. I completely blank people at races. I need to be focused. I'm rude.
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and cruel people to the top, and then it all slides back into misery and ruin. In fact, the machine conks. It seems to start up all right and runs a few yards, and then it breaks down.
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.
I cannot accept this country being destroyed by selfish people who only think about themselves.
Selfish, arrogant people drive me crazy.
Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for generations that capitalism and the free market, not the welfare state, produces selfish people.
