Selfishness Quotes

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I heard of somebody once who said he was interested in doing the greatest amount of good for the greatest number, and that the greatest… — Sterling W Sill
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other… — Oscar Wilde
The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity. — Eric Hoffer
There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them. — Charles Caleb Colton
Selfishness comes from poverty in the heart, from the belief that love is not abundant. — Miguel Angel Ruiz
Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and… — Thomas Merton
When a teacher of the future comes to point out to the youth of America how the highest rewards of intellect and devotion can be… — Elihu Root
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equalled the carnage perpetrated by… — Ayn Rand
A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times a comfort, or… — Albert Camus
The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself. — Albert Camus
We are all making a crown for Jesus out of these daily lives of ours, either a crown of golden, divine love, studded with gems… — Aimee Semple McPherson
It is selfishness which is the cause of most of our misery. — Gordon B. Hinckley
Satan had two conditions [to his plan]: the first was the denial of agency, and the second, that he would have the honor. In other… — James E. Faust
Let it never be said by future generations that indifference, cynicism or selfishness made us fail to live up to the ideals of humanism which… — Nelson Mandela
Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it. — Louis Kronenberger
One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going back. — Martin Amis
And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious group, an otherness that can… — Karen Armstrong
Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see - Egoism, Arrogance, Conceit, Selfishness, Greed, Lust, Intolerance, Anger, Lying, Cheating, Gossiping and Slandering. If you… — Al-Ghazali

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