Gratitude free of compassion is selfishness. It is nothing more than being happy for what has been done to benefit you. — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I have observed that the prosperity or misery of each people is in direct proportion to its liberties or its prejudices and,… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
Selfishness draws men into a spiritual vacuum where, absorbed in self service, they shut out all others. — William R. Bradford Copy Share Image
“One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one’s own personal, selfish… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I can't stand inconsiderate people. Selfishness kills relationships & friendships. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the past—the past of others, loaded onto their shoulders.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Nobody prays for the heartless, nobody gives another penny for the selfish” — Pierce The Veil Copy Share Image
“There's always a little decency in the worst places.... and always little secret selfishness in the best.” — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
I don't think the revisionist historians are accurate. I think their agendas are clouded by selfishness and anger and rage. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
A week filled up with selfishness, and the Sabbath stuffed full of religious exercises, will make a good Pharisee, but a poor… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I'm not ready to put others life into jeopardy, just for my own selfishness!” — Raajesh Pillai Copy Share Image
There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up,… — Daniel Smith Copy Share Image
Some people dont know the difference between thinking for yourself and thinking of yourself. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
“Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with you today,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you… — C S Lewis Copy Share Image
The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from… — Alexander Fraser Tytler Copy Share Image
Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
