Abbie Hoffman Quotes

I don't know if it's ever OK for someone to be selfish. Perhaps there's a time and place to be self-centered, but I think selfish never wins the race.

When you go out there and do the things you're supposed to do, people view you as selfish.

I think I'm still figuring out how to be a little less selfish.

We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

I'm not a selfish person, I don't think.

He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.

Kindness is something that I feel is leaving us a little bit - people are getting more self-involved.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

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.

Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

I never want to get to the point where it's all about my needs, and the hell with anybody else.

I'm not selfish at all.

It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.

I'd like to think I'm a caring human being.

I was brought up not to be selfish or self-centered. So if you play somebody who isn't so lovable, you can play that person and no one will turn on you. I don't want to play that person in real life. Because then people won't like me so much.

Kindness is wisdom.

That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.

I'm not a selfish guy.

I was never focused on me, me, me all the time. I was always focused on somebody else.

I'm not selfish.

I am not selfish.

I'm not too selfish or unselfish.