Extinction Quote by David Mitchell

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

— William E. Gladstone

Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our…

— William Wilberforce

The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.

— B. C. Forbes

Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.

— Duke Ellington

“We must eliminate the individual tendency to selfishness that snares the soul, shrinks the heart, and darkens the mind.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“What we traditionally call ‘selfish tendencies’ is only a narrow interpretation of what self-serving behaviour entails, wherein human characteristics are perceived through the flawed…

— Athene's Theory of Everything

Selfishness is much more than an ordinary problem because it activates all the cardinal sins! It is the detonator in the breaking of the…

— Neal A. Maxwell

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting…

— Oscar Wilde

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself

— Henry Ward Beecher

“one fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume itself. Yes, the Devil shall take the hindmost until the foremost is the hindmost. In…

— David Mitchell

Selfishness is weakness. But loving and caring for others is a position of power beyond anything we can possibly imagine.

— Joel Osteen