Gary Chapman Quotes

But the bottom line is that, as humans, we are by nature selfish creatures. The only way we care about anything, really, is by making it about us.

All our acts, reasoned and unreasoned, are selfish

Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.

The only one that matters is me. I am the only one that matters.

The natural life in each of us is something self-centred, something that wants to be petted and admired, to take advantage of other lives, to exploit the whole universe.

We're selfish to some degree, that's not a criticism and it doesn't mean that we are all narcissists. But in any situation our minds naturally evolve to what's in it for me? How does this affect me? Can this benefit me? Can this harm me? Then we might move on from that and have a more altruistic point of view about things but that's almost always our initial response.

Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.

Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.

Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.

Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.

Most of our social nature is like that of other primates - we're mostly out for ourselves.

If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.

Most of us are consumed with our own thoughts and desires and are not always thinking about what other people may want. This is not necessarily being egocentric; it is just being human.

We all get self-centered.

Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.

It's so easy to be selfish in your 20s and not want to sacrifice.

It is the liberal philosophy, not the conservative one, that views humans as selfish automatons.

me-firstism

The balance between the cooperative and altruistic tendencies and those which are disoperative and egoistic is relatively close. Under many conditions the cooperative forces lose, In the long run, however, the group centered, more altruistic drives are slightly stronger. ... human altruistic drives are as firmly based on an animal ancestry as is man himself.

People always choose self-preservation over the greater good, most of the time, with the belief that self-preservation is the greater good.

Majority of minds are warped into the belief of the only person worth helping is themself.

People are selfish, man. They want what they want; they don't care what you want.

Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.

It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to live.

Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.