Quotes About Selfish Persons

#1. Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

Erich Fromm

#2. He calls these projects gophers, as in, go-for-the-money (don't-deliver-the-project).

Richard House

#3. The real trouble is that the pure Word of Jesus has been overlaid with so much human ballast - burdensome rules and regulations, false hopes and consolations - that it has become extremely difficult to make a genuine decision for Christ.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#4. Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences.

Clarence Jordan

#5. I'm not making films for critics, I'm making films for people to go out and enjoy.

Nick Love

#6. Of all forms of government and society, those of free men and women are in many respects the most brittle. They give the fullest freedom for activities of private persons and groups who often identify their own interests, essentially selfish, with the general welfare.

Dorothy Thompson

#7. If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you'll find it.

Stephen Fry

#8. It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.

Mortimer Adler

#9. From this it follows that con-sideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital for goodness and want of consideration for other people makes human beings selfish, regardless for other people's good.

Morarji Desai

#10. A mind filled with negative thoughts makes you feel miserable and inadequate and will lead to failure after failure no matter how hard you try to succeed.

Steve Backley

#11. Narcissistic love is riding on the rollecoaster of disaster filled with a heart full of tears.

Sheree' Griffin

#12. False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford