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Selfishness Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 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…
- The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.
- We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human…
- The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do, and they are thus provided for without selfishness or disgrace.
- Broader and deeper we must write our annals, from an ethical reformation, from an influx of the ever new, ever sanative conscience, if we would…
- Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
- The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.
More Selfishness Quotes
- Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. — Jane Austen
- I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. — Jane Austen
- Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. — Richard Bach
- Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness. — Honore de Balzac
- People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty. — Henry Ward Beecher
- The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that… — Cyrano de Bergerac
- It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers.… — Carol Burnett
- To be happy we must not be too concerned with others. — Albert Camus
- A woman asking 'Am I good? Am I satisfied?' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk… — Barbara Cartland
- I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness. — Gary Chapman