Selfishness Quotes

Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only prais...

[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrai...

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the ...

Very often inertia, selfishness, and vanity play the greatest role in our trust in others; inertia w...

And isn’t that the root of every despicable action? Not selfishness, but precisely the absence of a ...

One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is ...

...only in relatively recent times have people decided that "because I want to" is sufficient reason...

We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.

In selfish men caution is as secure an armour for their foes as for themselves.

It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitiv...

I suppose it is that sickness and weakness are selfish things and turn our inner eyes and sympathy o...

While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is the best.

Indeed this gentleman's stoicism was of that not uncommon kind, which enables a man to bear with exe...

He wouldn't hear of anybody's paying taxes, though he was very patriotic.

I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US ...

We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On ever...

Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?

Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, ou...

In 1948, psychologists asked more than 10,000 adolescents whether they considered themselves to be a...

Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour...

The lovelorn, the cry-for-helpers, all mawkish tragedians who give suicide a bad name are the idiots...

People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call...

In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, a...

What is it about the American obsession with productivity and responsibility that makes it so diffic...

I believe I may assert that they were really in possession of deep and growing happiness. It ended. ...

This selfishness is not only part of me. It is the most living part.It is somehow transcending rathe...

Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.

If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You...

Wars come from egotism and selfishness. Every macrocosmic or world war has its origin in microcosmic...

I discovered that I am not disciplined out of virtue but as a reaction to my negligence, that I am g...

People don't want other people to be people.

A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself.

Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.

The love of our neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self, where we mope and mow, strikin...

I am a beast until I love as God doth love.

And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to mak...

It is warm, I am alive, I am calm and sad, I hardly know why. In this existence so even, so tranquil...

Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect

My problem was not only drinking; it was selfishness. The booze was leading me to put myself ahead o...

What do you want to say to me?’‘Nothing—just to talk about the profession I am entering. I am about ...

If we are to build that Zion of which the prophets have spoken and of which the Lord has given might...

It is a great mistake to suppose that a woman with no heart will be an easy creditor in the exchange...

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and alo...

No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

The word 'love,' used in connection with the reproduction of our species, is the most odious blasphe...

Let's be clear: unless I have profoundly misunderstood its position, I pretty much despise American ...

...children are at heart selfish, and reasonably so, for they are programmed for survival.

Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.

To behold virtue in her proper form is nothing else but to contemplate morality stripped of all admi...

Selfishness is the only real atheism aspiration unselfishness the only real religion.

...alone in this city, alone on this sea. The days were strewn about him, he was a drunkard of days....

The first sentiment of man was that of his existence, his first care that of preserving it.

You had once asked me if I was afraid of death. I said I was afraid of not living. I don’t want to e...

Ah, those foolish days, those foolish days when we were unselfish and pure-minded; those foolish day...

Nor was her love for Udayan recognizable or intact. Anger was always mounted to it, zigzagging throu...

That man who lives for self alone Lives for the meanest mortal known.

When the same qualities which we admire in ourselves are seen in others, even though they be superio...

The problem is hedonism. The problem is the preening vanity and selfishness of 'coming out,' of para...

I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.

What you love is your own love. It's not love, it's selfishness. It's not me you think of, but what ...

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, th...

By nature, we get more pleasure from God's gifts then from Himself.

By nature, we get more pleasure from God's gifts then from Himself.

By nature, we get more pleasure from God's gifts then from Himself.

By nature, we get more pleasure from God's gifts then from Himself.

Do you know, I am putting off ending this letter as though the end would be the end of something I w...

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives... I never meant ...

Parents are programmed to want the best for their kids, regardless of what they get in return. That'...

Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesti...

Our minds, unedited by guilt or shame, are not for public consumption, because they would either be ...

In his 1907 retirement address, Joseph Pulitzer urged his successors to always oppose privileged cla...

Take taking from those that give & nobody anywhere will need any more such gifts.

Manifest plainness,Embrace simplicity,Reduce selfishness,Have few desires.

My illness helped me to see that what was missing in society is what was missing in me: a little hea...

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

What Douglas had once seen as the attractive over-confidence of youth, now looked more like unyieldi...

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, a...

Selfishness is blind.

Their arrogance protected them against any liking for their fellow-man, against the slightest intere...

Service is the rent we pay for the life we have been given.

Self-interest lies behind all that men do, forming the important motive for all their actions; this ...

But then, I knew so little about my mother over the last decade of her life. I had been too wrapped ...

Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what...

There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists ...

Even the early droplets of selfish decisions suggest a direction. Then the little inflecting rivulet...

It was only that she wanted him to be happy, resenting, however, his inability to be so with things ...

The trouble with Clare was, not only that she wanted to have her cake and eat it too, but that she w...

Mine mine mine. That was the curse and power of human beings—that what they saw and loved they had t...

Society. I felt as though even I were beginning at last to acquire some vague notion of what it mean...

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Up to the present man has hardly cultivated sympathy at all. He has merely sympathy with pain, and s...

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energ...

If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mi...

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

In the end, even the “yes” to love is a source of suffering, because love always requires expropriat...

To love can mean 'to love oneself,' and often love is no more than a juxtaposition of two solitudes.

Did you close that part of your life, Drizzt Do'Urden? And now are you afraid because it might again...

Is the selfishness of children really so different from our own? During the summer in the country we...