Selfishness Quotes
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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.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere
Blaise Pascal
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde
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When we decide to live for ourselves rather than choosing to live God`s way, thats exactly what we do - condemn ourselves to destruction. To some extent, selfishness always leads to death of some sort.
Rebecca St. James
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(On himself) "My best quality is that I`m a big hearted person. I`m resilient, too. My worst quality is selfishness, although everyone is guilty of that to an extent. Everyone should be, I think -- you need to respect yourself."
Matthew McConaughey
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To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
Adam Smith
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This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.
Jessica Lange
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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.
Alfredo Alonso
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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.
Alan Seeger
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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
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Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that to-day is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
William Howard Taft
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Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion.
Alfonso Felder
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Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.
Andrew Moran
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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.
Alberto Madrigal
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Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.
Alane Fagin
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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.
Rick Danko
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The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of ben...
John Randolph
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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.
Adam Braidwood
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Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.
Adam Clymer
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Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.
Adam Harben
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