Top Selfishness Quotes Collection

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Image of Kazuya Minekura
What's wrong with selfishness and egotism? We live to die smiling, don't we?
- Kazuya Minekura
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Image of Bill Walton
Never forget - happiness ends when selfishness begins.
- Bill Walton
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Image of John H. Groberg
We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness behind.
- John H. Groberg
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Image of Patrick Lencioni
Failing to hold someone accountable is ultimately an act of selfishness.
- Patrick Lencioni
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Image of Margaret Landon
Maybe selflessness was only selfishness on another level.
- Margaret Landon
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Image of Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
We are not slow at discovering the selfishness of others; for this plain reason--because it clashes with our own.
- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
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Image of Anne Campbell
Aggression is the first step on the slippery slope to selfishness and chaos.
- Anne Campbell
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Image of James Martineau
We can neither change nor overpower God's eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness.
- James Martineau
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Image of Julio Cortazar
Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.
- Julio Cortazar
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Image of Roz Chast
It's almost selfishness, taking care of your mental health. You can't just not do it.
- Roz Chast
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Image of Ivy Compton-Burnett
A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.
- Ivy Compton-Burnett
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Image of Guru Gobind Singh
The greatest comforts and lasting peace are obtained, when one eradicates selfishness from within.
- Guru Gobind Singh
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Image of Khem Veasna
Selfishness alone is sufficient to bring apocalypse upon a nation.
- Khem Veasna
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Image of Carrie Jacobs-Bond
No one has a right to hoard things which he cannot use.
- Carrie Jacobs-Bond
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Image of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In the North the first words are, Help me; in the South, Love me.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Image of John Greenleaf Whittier
To be saved is only this-salvation from our own selfishness.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
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Image of Josh Billings
Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with.
- Josh Billings
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Image of Ludwig von Mises
Under a socialist mode of production all personal incentives which selfishness provides under capitalism are removed, and a premium is put upon laziness and negligence. Whereas in a capitalist society selfishness incites everyone to the utmost diligence, in a socialist society it makes for inertia and laxity.
- Ludwig von Mises
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Image of J. C. Ryle
Go to the cross of Christ, all you that want to be delivered from the power of selfishness.
- J. C. Ryle
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Image of R.J. Rushdoony
The Lord supplies our needs, but not our selfishness
- R.J. Rushdoony
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Image of Lauren Oliver
Amor deliria nervosa isn't a disease of love. It's a disease of selfishness.
- Lauren Oliver
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Image of Anton Szandor LaVey
Satanism represents a form of controlled selfishness.
- Anton Szandor LaVey
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Image of Stendhal
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
- Stendhal
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Image of Walter Scott
Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides.
- Walter Scott
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Image of Novala Takemoto
You fueled my obession, even encouraged it and your selfishness ruined my life
- Novala Takemoto
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Image of John Wooden
Happiness begins when selfishness ends.
- John Wooden
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Image of Jose Rizal
Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.
- Jose Rizal
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Image of John Stuart Mill
Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.
- John Stuart Mill
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Image of Laurence Sterne
There are some tempers--how shall I describe them--formed either of such impenetrable matter, or wrought up by habitual selfishness to such an utter insensibility of what becomes of the fortunes of their fellow-creatures, as if they were not partakers of the same nature, or had no lot or connection at all with the species.
- Laurence Sterne
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Image of W. E. B. Du Bois
No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.
- W. E. B. Du Bois
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Image of Susan Sontag
One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves.
- Susan Sontag
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Image of Noam Chomsky
We had one or another form of state capitalism during an extremely brief period of human history, which tells us essentially nothing about human nature. If you look at human societies and human interactions, you can find anything. You find selfishness, you find altruism, you find sympathy.
- Noam Chomsky
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Image of Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Image of Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
There is an ill-breeding to which, whatever our rank and nature, we are almost equally sensitive, the ill-breeding that comes from want of consideration for others.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Image of Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
O my God, how true it is that we may have of Thy gifts and yet may be full of ourselves!
- Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
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Image of Albert Camus
I lived with the only continuity, day to day, of the me-me-me.
- Albert Camus
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Image of Mason Cooley
Charity does not like arithmetic; selfishness worships it.
- Mason Cooley
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Image of John Dewey
The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively an individual affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness. There is no obvious social motive for the acquirement of mere learning, there is no clear social gain in success thereat.
- John Dewey
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Image of Richard Dawkins
It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
- Richard Dawkins
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Image of Richard Dawkins
A gene might be able to assist replicas of itself that are sitting in other bodies. If so, this would appear as individual altruism but it would be brought about by gene selfishness.
- Richard Dawkins
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Image of George Eliot
Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples.
- George Eliot
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Image of Jonathan Edwards
If you seek in the spirit of selfishness, to grasp all as your own, you shall lose all, and be driven out of the world, at last, naked and forlorn, to everlasting poverty and contempt.
- Jonathan Edwards
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Image of Mahatma Gandhi
Selfishness is blind.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Image of Aristotle
Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.
- Aristotle
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Image of J. G. Holland
The fact is that sin is the most unmanly thing in God's world. You never were made for sin and selfishness. You were made for love and obedience.
- J. G. Holland
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Image of Kehinde Wiley
For me, I wanted to create something that's much more driven by a type of selfishness, a type of decadence.
- Kehinde Wiley
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Image of Immanuel Kant
If we knew that god exists, such knowledge would make morality impossible. For, if we acted morally from fear or fright, or confident of a reward, then this would not be moral. It would be enlightened selfishness.
- Immanuel Kant
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Image of Laura Lippman
stinginess seemed instinctive to him. Darwinian even. He hadn't gotten to his current size by sharing.
- Laura Lippman
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Image of Dalai Lama
Along with selfishness, anger is one of the most serious problems facing the world today
- Dalai Lama
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