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Selfishness Quotes

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

Value Sorry Seeing Selfishness Act

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

Freedom You Nobody Selfishness Means

If there were more temple work done in the Church, there would be less of selfishness, less of contention, less of demeaning others.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Work Church Selfishness Done Temple

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

Charles Caleb Colton

Alive Selfishness Nothing Essence

On immigration, Europe is in danger of displaying the worst of itself: selfishness, haphazard decision-making and rows between member states.

Paolo Gentiloni

Immigration Selfishness Worst Europe

Selfishness is a quality and not necessarily a bad thing.

Quality Bad Selfishness Thing

Men's moral principles are weak enough without their being made subordinate to selfishness; and their selfishness is quite active enough, without any such effort as Christianity makes to constitute it the mainspring of all their conduct.

Lysander Spooner

Men Effort Enough Selfishness Moral

Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters - self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking.

Ezra Taft Benson

Me Pride Selfishness Matters More

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

William E. Gladstone

Selfishness Race Human Curse

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

Live Wishes Selfishness Living

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.

Father Me Feeling Selfishness Now

There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.

Kris Kristofferson

Life Creative You Selfishness Where

The sin which is indulged to the greatest extent, which separates us from God and produces so many spiritual disorders, and which are contagious, is selfishness.

God Spiritual Selfishness Sin Us

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sympathy Selfishness Virtue Disguised

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Love Inspire Selfishness Qualities

This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.

Generosity Me Selfishness Virtue

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.

Good Respect Myself Sick Selfishness

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.

Congress Selfishness President More

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

Elizabeth Bowen

Hope Impossible Selfishness Lovers

To describe Peter Thiel as simply a libertarian wildly understates the case. His belief system is based on unapologetic selfishness and economic Darwinism.

Selfishness Belief System Economic

Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.

Madame de Stael

Women Men Selfishness Weak Because

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

Politics American Selfishness Through

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

Selfishness Caution Confidential

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

Honore de Balzac

Selfishness Courtesy Only General

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