Selfishness Quotes

Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love. (Aristotle)
Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
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. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. View quote
Richard Bach
Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to. View quote
Oscar Wilde
There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress, as well as others, than I had any conception [of], before I became President of the U. S. View quote
James K. Polk
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. View quote
William Howard Taft
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. View quote
Jane Austen
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision. View quote
Helen Keller
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness. (Honoré de Balzac)
Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion. View quote
Israel Zangwill
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance. View quote
Graham Greene
SELFISH, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary. View quote
Kris Kristofferson
Deeds that seemed unimportant at the time would prove to have been momentous; a tiny act of selfishness and unkindness or, conversely, an unconsidered act of generosity would become the measure of a human life. View quote
Karen Armstrong
There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil it is persecution to others or selfishness. View quote
William Blake
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature -- opposition to it on his love of justice. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
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. View quote
Rick Danko
Selfishness is blind. (Mahatma Gandhi)
The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice. View quote
Samuel Smiles
Atheism exists only in coldness, selfishness, and baseness. View quote
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak. View quote
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Selfishness does not mean only to do things for one's self. One may do things, affecting others, for his own pleasure and benefit. This is not immoral, but the highest of morality. View quote
Ayn Rand