Being selfish Quote by Morarji Desai

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

— Ouida

We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly…

— Mortimer Adler

Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Unless we recognize a higher power to whom we are responsible and who observes and knows our actions, we will not transcend the selfishness…

— Daniel Friedmann

The act of willingly subtracting from one's own limited store of the good and the agreeable for the sake of adding to that of…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Selfishness even binds many people, but blindly without having any liking for one another.

— Anuj

To be selfish is to sacrifice the nobler for the meaner ends, and to be sordidly content.

— Hugh Reginald Haweis

It would be a great misunderstanding of this doctrine to suppose that it is one of selfish indifference about the well-being of others'.

— John Stuart Mill

It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a 'higher standard of living than any have ever known.' It…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.

— Jessica Lange

In all determinations of morality, this circumstance of public utility is ever principally in view; and wherever disputes arise, either in philosophy or common…

— David Hume

Neutrality in things good or evil is both odious and prejudicial; but in matters of an indifferent nature is safe and commendable. Herein taking…

— Joseph Hall