Quotes and Sayings About Selfishness
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Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
-- Adam Smith -
If pity was always equally alive and acting in all individuals and in all circumstances, we could do away with moral. Unfortunately, it is not compassion, but rather it's contrary, selfishness, that act most strongly in us.
-- African Spir -
Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.
-- Alan Dershowitz -
I lived with the only continuity, day to day, of the me-me-me.
-- Albert Camus -
It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.
-- Alexander Pope -
How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.
-- Alice James -
Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense.
-- Andrew Coyle Bradley -
Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his gods.
-- Anne Rice -
Love is the selfishness of two persons.
-- Antoine de la Sale -
Satanism represents a form of controlled selfishness.
-- Anton Szandor LaVey -
That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own, hardly at all of the common interest; and only when he is himself concerned as an individual. For besides other considerations, everybody is more inclined to neglect the duty which he expects another to fulfill.
-- Aristotle -
Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.
-- Arthur Helps -
The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other.
-- Ayn Rand -
The Good Turn will educate the boy out of the groove of selfishness.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino -
In Scouting you are combating the brooding of selfishness.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino -
Let not a man's self be to him all in all.
-- Benjamin Whichcote -
Take the selfishness out of anger and you're left with determination.
-- Bernie Glassman -
When Christ's love fills our hearts, it puts selfishness on the run.
-- Billy Graham -
Only God can give us a selfless love for others, as the Holy Spirit changes us from within. This is one reason we must receive Christ, for apart from His Spirit we can never be freed from the chains of selfishness, jealousy, and indifference. Will others see Christ's love in your life today?
-- Billy Graham -
Without the help of selfishness, the human animal would never have developed. Egoism is the vine by which man hoisted himself out of the swamp and escaped from the jungle.
-- Blaise Cendrars -
It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact. If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.
-- Bram Stoker -
No one has a right to hoard things which he cannot use.
-- Carrie Jacobs-Bond -
Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.
-- Charles Dickens -
The Civilized… murder their children by producing too many of them without being able to provide for their well-being. Morality or theories of false virtue stimulate them to manufacture cannon fodder, anthills of conscripts who are forced to sell themselves out of poverty. This improvident paternity is a false virtue, the selfishness of pleasure.
-- Charles Fourier -
The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst
