Quotes about selfishness
selfishness satanism form
Satanism represents a form of controlled selfishness. Anton LaVey
selfishness
Selfishness has never been admired. C. S. Lewis
selfishness degrees bigs
Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love. Aristotle
selfishness may cold
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
selfishness sin bases
The basis of all sin is selfishness. David O. McKay
selfishness incentives laziness
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
selfishness continuity day-to-day
I lived with the only continuity, day to day, of the me-me-me. Albert Camus
selfishness today serious
Along with selfishness, anger is one of the most serious problems facing the world today Dalai Lama
selfishness slippery-slope firsts
Aggression is the first step on the slippery slope to selfishness and chaos.
selfishness luxurious
Be, as many now are, luxurious to yourself, parsimonious to your friends. [Lat., Esto, ut nunc multi, dives tibi pauper amicis.] Juvenal
selfishness never-forget forget
Never forget - happiness ends when selfishness begins. Bill Walton
selfishness unselfish persons
A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life. Ivy Compton-Burnett
selfishness want christ
Go to the cross of Christ, all you that want to be delivered from the power of selfishness. J. C. Ryle
selfishness size stinginess
stinginess seemed instinctive to him. Darwinian even. He hadn't gotten to his current size by sharing. Laura Lippman
selfishness next causes
Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation. John Stuart Mill
selfishness matter connections
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
selfishness ends
Happiness begins when selfishness ends. John Wooden
selfishness desert fool
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life. Stendhal
selfishness messages want
One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. Susan Sontag
selfishness disguise inspection
It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise. Richard Dawkins
selfishness would-be sitting
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.
selfishness care mental-health
It's almost selfishness, taking care of your mental health. You can't just not do it. Roz Chast
selfishness defense libertarian
Economics is sometimes associated with the study and defense of selfishness and material inequality, but it has an egalitarian and civil libertarian core that should be celebrated. Tyler Cowen
selfishness twins twin-sister
Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness. Percy Bysshe Shelley
selfishness firsts helping
In the North the first words are, Help me; in the South, Love me. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
selfishness littles poor
Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples. George Eliot
selfishness courtesy veneer
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness. Honore de Balzac
selfishness would-be rewards
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
selfishness noli-me-tangere shame
Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame. Jose Rizal
selfishness blind
Selfishness is blind. Mahatma Gandhi
selfishness suffrage meanness
We can neither change nor overpower God's eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness. James Martineau
selfishness ruined
You fueled my obession, even encouraged it and your selfishness ruined my life Novala Takemoto
selfishness charity doe
Charity does not like arithmetic; selfishness worships it. Mason Cooley