Quotes About Destructive Selfishness

#1. I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish - there was a bit of nobility about her.

Sally Field

#2. The universe is a flaw in the purity of non-being.

Paul Valery

#3. I have a kind soul that would give you thanks. And knows not how to do it but with tears.

William Shakespeare

#4. I think if there's some kind of crisis in news journalism ... a crisis of credibility, then it's been created by journalists. I'm empathetic, I understand it and I see it, but I'm not sympathetic about it. If you want people to think of journalism with higher regard then do better work.

Russell Crowe

#5. Just as rust, which arose from the iron itself, wears out the iron, likewise, performing an action without examination would destroy us by projecting us into a negative state of existence.

Dalai Lama

#6. Love - massively destructive to hatred, selfishness and greed. Use liberally.

Cathryn Louis

#7. I don't like top hats, white ties, and tails.

Fred Astaire

#8. Now listen little pigs, I'm gonna let you off the hook if you open the door.

Sam The Sham

#9. The selfishness of humanity is rooted in the self-destructive nature of man through sin. Romans 6:23

Felix Wantang

#10. In my free time, I'd written 'Sammy's Hill' - it had started out as a play. I just did it for myself.

Kristin Gore

#11. The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. With my students, I don't offer any simple tips like that, maybe because my own process is pretty messy, but when we workshop we talk a lot about the deeper subject, which is what the story or novel is about. I think defining a narrative's themes can lay bare a narrative's tensions.

Edan Lepucki

#13. Carley saw two forces in life--the destructive and constructive. On the one side greed, selfishness, materialism: on the other generosity, sacrifice, and idealism.

Zane Grey

#14. Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#15. I could never understand the attraction of Bette Davis. I always preferred Jane Russell.

Richard Griffiths

#16. I felt need. It was you. I can never allow myself to need you. So, my only choice is to make you need me, because ridding myself of you is no longer an option.

Renea Mason

#17. Selfishness is one of the most destructive forces in man that is why life demands for its death.

Sunday Adelaja

#18. Sometimes it takes a broken heart for us to finally let Jesus in. Sometimes it takes a painful experience to make us change our ways. - Proverbs 20:30 GNT

Kyle Idleman

#19. The nuclear family doesn't work. It's very destructive; it grew out of selfishness.

Greg Wise

#20. The best way to detect the destructive element in someone is to watch closely their behavioural pattern when given authority over poverty.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#21. Power ... was the coin of the Washington realm and, without it, you might as well file for bankruptcy.

Elizabeth Ray