Selfishness Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.

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

Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

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

Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

Let us reject violence and selfishness which could destroy our country's unity.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.