Selfishness Quotes

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.
Franz Kafka

Parents, Two, Born

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.
David O. McKay

Humanity, Night, Cannot

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.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Strength, Forget, Self

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.
George A. Smith

Power, Past, Evil

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

Idea, Generosity, Virtue

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

Hope, Impossible, Lovers

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.'
Muhammad Yunus

Business, Different, Said

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
E. W. Howe

Friendship, May, Same

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

Country, Violence, Destroy

Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.
Jason Reitman

Family, True, Feeling

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

Religion, Real, Atheism

Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
Madame de Stael

Women, Men, Weak

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.
Michael Zaslow

Father, Afraid, Able

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.
William Howard Taft

Today, Human, Effort

Romance is alive and well in America, but the 50 percent who can't make it work fail because of selfishness. It gets down to that. You can't oversimplify it because every situation is so complex.
Donny Osmond

Work, Down, America

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.
Anthony Kiedis

Dad, Father, Feeling

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.
John L. Lewis

Greed, Few, Resentment

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.
John Comenius

Religion, End, Humanity

We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about the people and the planet Earth.
Evo Morales

Thinking, Giving, Earth

Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual.
William Graham Sumner

Men, Greed, Financial

Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.
Elihu Root

Nature, Human, Control

There are probably only a certain number of people who can understand or tolerate how long a job will take and what demands it puts on you. And why should they? It breeds a strange kind of selfishness immersing yourself in a character for so long.
Dominic Cooper

Yourself, Character, Job

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.
Alice James

Good, Respect, Sick

My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful.
Hattie McDaniel

Good, Grateful, Desire

I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities that make me the lovable chap I am.
Richard Hammond

Greed, Lovable, Arrogance

We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense.
Andrew Coyle Bradley

Sense, Violence, Moral

I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me.
Peter Carey

Life, Courage, Writing

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

Politics, Through, Cannot

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

Freedom, Means, Nobody

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