Selfishness Quotes

Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils.

Selfishness and fear are at the root of (pro-abortion) legislation...We in the Church have a great struggle to defend life...life is a gift not a threat.

It's almost selfishness, taking care of your mental health. You can't just not do it.

If people are innately saddled with certain sins and flaws, like selfishness, prejudice, sort-sightedness, and self-deception, then political reform would seem to be a waste of time.

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

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

Selfishness is blind.

To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...selfish.

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

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

The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God.

Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all—self-centeredness in its purest form.

You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.

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

I have freedom. But freedom means total selfishness. It means nobody cares much what you do.

I can only say that I have acted upon my best convictions, without selfishness or malice, and that by the help of God I shall continue to do so.

Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.

I lived with the only continuity, day to day, of the me-me-me.

By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society.

Love is the selfishness of two persons.

Selfishness even binds many people, but blindly without having any liking for one another.

The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other.

Let not a man's self be to him all in all.

No one has a right to hoard things which he cannot use.

Selfishness of the stable or rigid sort is as a rule more bitterly resented than the more fickle variety, chiefly, no doubt, because, having more continuity and purpose, it is more formidable.

Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.

I don't think there's any need to have essays advocating selfishness among human beings; I don't know what your impression has been, but some things require no further reinforcement.

Certain beliefs must accompany every action: One should act without selfishness, cultivate compassion for all living things, and develop respect for others.

Along with selfishness, anger is one of the most serious problems facing the world today

There is a need for everyone's brain to be imprinted with more self-enhancing impulses: the impulse to peace over violence, love over fear, compassion over selfishness.

Gratitude free of compassion is selfishness. It is nothing more than being happy for what has been done to benefit you.

The effect of capitalism is to steer human selfishness so that, through the invisible hand of competition, the energies of the capitalist produce the abundance from which the whole society benefits.

For Silicon Valley and its idols, innovation is the new selfishness.

Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.

Our enemies believed America was weak and materialistic, that we would splinter in fear and selfishness. They were as wrong as they are evil.

Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait.

If we read the Western Canon in order to form our social, political, or personal moral values, I firmly believe we will become monsters of selfishness and exploitation.

When leisure is a selfish luxury, its very activity, when it stirs, is apt to be only a kind of indolence taking exercise, that it may the better digest its selfishness.

Tenderness and respect-never selfishness-must be the guiding principles in the intimate relationship between husband and wife

We should awaken feelings of respect for each other. In other words, awaken the desire to kill selfishness.

Judeo-Christian conservatism overcomes natural selfishness.

There are so many ways a family can unravel. All it takes is a tiny slash of selfishness, a rip of greed, a puncture of bad luck. And yet, woven tightly, family can be the strongest bond imaginable.

The more our hearts and minds are turned to assisting others less fortunate than we, the more we will avoid the spiritually cankering effects that result from greed, selfishness and overindulgence.

It seems to me that there are two great enemies of peace - fear and selfishness.

For me, I wanted to create something that's much more driven by a type of selfishness, a type of decadence.

Amor deliria nervosa isn't a disease of love. It's a disease of selfishness.

Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the past—the past of others, loaded onto their shoulders. Selfishness is their saving grace.

Maybe selflessness was only selfishness on another level.

One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going back.

I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning selfishness.