Top 1200 Selfish Men Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

You can be selfish by being too unselfish at times.

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious, or less avaricious than aristocracy or monarchy. It is not true, in fact, and nowhere appears in history. Those passions are the same in all men, under all forms of simple government, and when unchecked, produce the same effects of fraud, violence, and cruelty.

An artist must be ruthlessly selfish.

These European White Men, then, with civilization in their blood and in their destiny, crossed the Atlantic and set up a new civilization on a bleak and rock bound coast. It was the White Men who drove north to Alaska and west to California; the men who opened up the tropics and subdued the Arctics; the men who mastered the African Veldts; the men who peopled Australia and seized the gates of the world at Suez, Gibraltar and Panama.

Drug addicts, when they are in their addiction, are selfish.

It is impossible to be both selfish and happy.

He held up a book then. “I'm going to read it to you for relax.” “Does it have any sports in it?” “Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True Love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest Ladies. Snakes. Spiders... Pain. Death. Brave men. Cowardly men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles.” “Sounds okay,” I said and I kind of closed my eyes.

I am a very selfish person.

Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact.

Be incredibly, ruthlessly selfish with your equity.

Philanthropy can have a very strong selfish component.

Our true passions are selfish.

My first responsibility is to be selfish for New Jersey.

Men are but men, and the greatest men are they who soonest learn the simpler things.

Tragedies make you realize how selfish you are.

A lot of music comes from a selfish place.

Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless.

It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.

The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men - men of prayer.

I'm a selfish, little pig of a man.

There were statistically more women than men on the planet. Why should every major religion have been founded by men and propagated by men?

Real men know how to move as real men. Real men won't allow themselves to be disrespected. Real men aren't punks.

I think I was a pretty selfish athlete.

There's nothing about me that's selfish.

Drugs are a very selfish thing.

Patriotism is the opposite of selfish individualism.

[A]ll the ingenious men, and all the scientific men, and all the fanciful men, in the world,... could never invent, if all their wits were boiled into one, anything so curious and so ridiculous as a lobster.

Be not selfish in your doings: pass it on.

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

In men whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness still, In men whom men pronounce divine I find so much of sin and blot, I do not dare to draw a line Between the two, where God has not.

I don't believe I'm selfish in any way.

Orthodox Christians have the habit of claiming all great men, all men who have held important positions, men of reputation, men of wealth. As soon as the funeral is over clergymen begin to relate imaginary conversations with the deceased, and in a very little while the great man is changed to a Christian - possibly to a saint.

My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.

All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.

Be militant! Be an organization that is going to do things! If you can find older men who will give you countenance and acceptableleadership, follow them; but if you cannot, organize separately and dispense with them. There are only two sorts of men to be associated with when something is to be done: Those are young men and men who never grow old.

The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator. Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.

And is it selfish of me to crave victory, or is it brave?

I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess.

Selfish is easy. It's sharing that takes courage.

I'm not a selfish player; it's about our team.

To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.

There is no sound basis upon which it may be assumed that all poor men are godly and all rich men are evil, no more than it could be assumed that all rich men are good and all poor men are bad.

Men have been swindled by other men on many occasions. The autumn of 1929 was, perhaps, the first occasion when men succeeded on a large scale in swindling themselves.

The only selfish life is a timid one.

There is no room for selfish behaviour at Bayern.

It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.

All men begin as good men. What they are taught as children, what is expected of them as young men, is either the armor about that goodness or the flaw that allows evil in.

I have become the chief minister not with a selfish motive.

I refuse to be crude and selfish in any way.

Acting can be very selfish and all-consuming.

If you want to be wisely selfish, care for others

I write from my life, my experience. I'm selfish that way.

I find it profoundly symbolic that I am appearing before a committee of fifteen men who will report to a legislative body of one hundred men because of a decision handed down by a court comprised of nine men--on an issue that affects millions of women.... I have the feeling that if men could get pregnant, we wouldn't be struggling for this legislation. If men could get pregnant, maternity benefits would be as sacrosanct as the G.I. Bill.

I know many men at Fox, and most are good, decent people. Many are also good family men who have wives, mothers, sisters and daughters. Many are men of faith and moral conviction. These men have huge platforms.

That's okay. You an be selfish with me all you want. I'm yours.

Men create their own gods and thus have some slight understanding that they are self-fabricated. Women are much more susceptible, because they are completely oppressed by men; they take men at their word and believe in the gods that men have made up. The situation of women, their culture, makes them kneel more often before the gods that have been created by men than men themselves do, who know what they've done. To this extent, women will be more fanatical, whether it is for fascism or for totalitarianism.

Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.

All our acts, reasoned and unreasoned, are selfish

Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture.

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.