Selfishness Quotes

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

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

I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.

I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.

My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual.

Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.

There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.

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.

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.

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

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

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

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

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.'

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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