We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry and grasping at the spoil… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Wake up first. Wake up, and then you can double back and perhaps be of some use to others if you still… — Jed McKenna Copy Share Image
Look into the world--how often do you behold a sordid wretch, whose straight heart is open to no man's affliction, taking shelterbehind… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that the difficult thing in life is to find what stirs you and move toward it. Mom put… — Christa Parravani Copy Share Image
At no time and in no circumstances should a Communist place his personal interests first; he should subordinate them to the interests… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
“Some researchers have proposed that experiencing empathy and compassion through the mirror neuron system is equivalent to having compassion for yourself. Thus,… — John B. Arden Copy Share Image
Under a socialist mode of production all personal incentives which selfishness provides under capitalism are removed, and a premium is put upon… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Would that our harsh judgments could be restrained, our impatience checked, our selfishness broken down, our passions controlled, our waste of time… — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing for us seems to be to give of ourselves, to do away with selfishness. If we really love… — Nathan Eldon Tanner Copy Share Image
To the end, I will remain a child of Europe, of worry and of shame. I have no message of hope to… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
Oh so your mad that you didn't get what you want because your mom lowered your spending money? Well guess what bitch,… — Masha Mezz Copy Share Image
All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
At the heart of the message of the Savior of the world is a single, glorious, wonderful, still largely untried concept. In… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Suddenly I find myself feeling sorry for those greedy, needy people whose huge salaries are never quite enough, whose sense of worth… — Terence Blacker Copy Share Image
“I content myself with the fact that the general system of our trade is a system of selfishness, is not dictated by… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
My view is my entire life has been shaped by giving when I didn't have it. Some idiot who's wealthy and doesn't… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Alas! how many souls there are full of self, and yet desirous of doing good and serving God, but in such a… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Just as blueprints don't necessarily specify blue buildings, selfish genes don't necessarily specify selfish organisms. As we shall see, sometimes the most… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
...rise above selfishness. This includes spiritual selfishness, when one looks toward personal edification and strengthening and has no other interest than one's… — Hans B. Ringger Copy Share Image
“I believe I may assert that they were really in possession of deep and growing happiness. It ended. Well, we must be… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
It's funny. I'm attracted to things that don't have any impact on life. People say I've done a great thing for women.… — Joan Benoit Copy Share Image
Right-wing propagandists like Limbaugh and Coulter are essentially entertainers, entertainers who stimulate prejudice, selfishness and meanness the way a comedian works for… — Hal Crowther Copy Share Image
Love...no such thing. Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear.… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
“When your child is a little older, you can teach him about our tax system in a way that is easy to… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
“If we want to live perfectly happy lives...we must drive out selfish character tendencies such as pride, ego, vanity, jealousy, lusts, envy… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
“There is an element of selfishness to this, I suppose. It feels pretty good to be able to so quickly help someone.… — Kitty Dukakis Copy Share Image
Ironically, often the thing that keeps me from experiencing joy is my preoccupation with self. The very selfishness that keeps me from… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Unlike all other founders of a religious faith, Christ had no selfishness, no desire of dominance; and His system, unlike all other… — Alfred William Howitt Copy Share Image
I myself feel, and also tell other Buddhists that the question of Nirvana will come later. There is not much hurry. If… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Yet women, whose minds are not enlarged by cultivation, or in whom the natural selfishness of sensibility hasn’t been expanded by reflection,… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“there are selfish people around you who behave good and nice with you only to get something done from you and use… — Led Miliana Copy Share Image
“that is the thing about selfish people. they gamble entire beings. entire souls to please their own. one second they are holding… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“His Kingship, precisely because it is so broad, so total, is doomed to be rejected by anybody who is still into tribalism,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Broader and deeper we must write our annals, from an ethical reformation, from an influx of the ever new, ever sanative conscience,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There are some people that see the half full cup and get upset about where the other half of the cup went...… — Daniel Prokop Copy Share Image
“Mbegu tunazopanda leo ni mazao ya msimu ujao. Ukipanda mbegu mbaya utavuna mabaya. Ukipanda mbegu nzuri utavuna mazuri. Ukitenda mabaya leo kesho… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
“Your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving: Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“You see Carter, people are two things: greedy and cruel. So we have a perfect set-up here. The greed part - a… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
A self that is only differentiated - not integrated - may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism.… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
