“Orwell. Wrote a book that said that a totalitarian society sustains itself by the basic selfishness of everybody. When the chips were… — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
Love. Help with no expectations. Destroy selfishness, self... At the end of our lives, I believe the soul will be asked, "What… — Misty Upham Copy Share Image
Yes, I get jealous. Yes, I get possessive. Why? Because what's mine is MINE and sometimes I think someone might steal you… — Keren Zhims Copy Share Image
Let us make a pledge that, if not all day or all night long, at least for a few moments every day,… — Gurumayi Chidvilasananda Copy Share Image
Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The reason authors almost always put a dedication on a book is, because their selfishness even horrifies themselves in the end.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
According to the first image of international relations, the locus of the important causes of war is found in the nature and… — Kenneth Waltz Copy Share Image
Selflessness is like waiting in a hospital In a badly-fitting suit on a cold wet morning. Selfishness is like listening to good… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
In the march towards Truth, anger, selfishness, hatred, etc., naturally give way, for otherwise Truth would be impossible to attain. A man… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“If there is to be any hope for the world, indeed if you really want to find satisfaction and happiness in your… — Sir James Darling Copy Share Image
What it felt to me was like the dissolution of my idea of myself. I felt like separateness evaporated. I felt this… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence. The Omnipotent Himself could never be supposed… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
“Committing suicide essentially said to friends and loved ones and the world at large that you were the only thing that mattered,… — Christine Warren Copy Share Image
Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency.… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Fond of bewailing the decadence of the modern world, of denouncing the younger generation for its lack of idealism and public spirit,… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
Drama is Drama. Bullying is Bullying. No matter what reasons people do it for, it will usually be out of self-interest or… — Isaiah Harden Copy Share Image
“The selfish thing to do was to play to everyone’s needs to feel accepted. The unselfish thing to do was to be… — Rene Gutteridge Copy Share Image
Without the help of selfishness, the human animal would never have developed. Egoism is the vine by which man hoisted himself out… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
The inescapable fact is that when we build a society based on greed, selfishness, and ruthless competition, the fruits we can expect… — Tommy Douglas Copy Share Image
True patriots believe that freedom from responsibility is selfishness, freedom from sacrifice is cowardice, freedom from tolerance is prejudice, freedom from stewardship… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged,… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more… — H. Jay Dinshah Copy Share Image
The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities that make me the lovable chap I… — Richard Hammond Copy Share Image
“In negotiations, everyone goes home with a slice of tactful compromise but nobody gets to binge on the whole cake and leave… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“If you are honest, people may deceive you. Be honest anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfishness. Be… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“I spend my life constantly calling in ‘imaginary’ debts that aren’t owed to me in order to avoid the ‘real’ debts that… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Broke off a friendship yesterday, because after loving someone for so long it's so sad to be smacked in the face with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The country is suffering from musical-chairs syndrome. We all dance around for a bit and then when we try to sit down… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
Given a man full of faith, you will have a man tenacious in purpose, absorbed in one grand object, simple in his… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Broke off a friendship today, because after loving someone for so long its so sad to be smacked in the face with… — Shmoopy Copy Share Image
Happiness must be shared. Selfishness it its enemy; to make another happy is to be happy one's self. It is quiet, most… — William B. Ogden Copy Share Image
“Without effort in a relationship, there is shallowness. With shallowness, there is selfishness. When there is selfishness, where is love?” — Vandini Bhandari Copy Share Image
The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
Did the mass of men know the actual selfishness and injustice of their rulers, not a government would stand a year. -… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
What the writers do, and we hopefully can bring to life, is that they present characters who, on the surface, aren't always… — Charlie Cox Copy Share Image
The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Surrounded as we are by the wants and woes of our fellow-men, and yet given to follow our own pleasures, regardless of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
