Ralph Steadman Quotes

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

I'm just selfish. I have to be for what I do.

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.

Strikers are egotists, selfish. We have to be.

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

A lot of comedians are selfish.

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.

I only pray when it suits my own needs. I'm not proud about that.

If you are passionate only about yourself -that is the road to disaster.

I am a very selfish person.

I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.

Each man seeks his own interest, not the general interest. Let his own selfish interests be touched, and all concord is at an end.

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

That what appears to be egoism so often isn't.

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 is the only real atheism.

The howl of self-interest is loud ... but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.

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

It doesn't matter who wins if I don't. I only care if I win. I'm jealous of anyone else who wins.

Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you.

I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!