Selfishness Quotes

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.

As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.

There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go and become a philanthropist.' I said, 'No, I can do that in the business world, create a different kind of business - a business based on selflessness.'

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

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

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.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

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

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.

I was surprised by how much I like being a father; surprised at what a decent father I am, because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to dump my selfishness.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.

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