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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.

Quotes by William Graham Sumner

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

Quotes by William E. Gladstone

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

Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Quotes by Paolo Gentiloni

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

Oscar Wilde

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Quotes by Mwai Kibaki

Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.

Quotes by Madame de Stael

We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.

Quotes by Madeleine M. Kunin

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

Quotes by Lao Tzu

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

Quotes by Kris Kristofferson

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.

Quotes by John L. Lewis

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.

Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Quotes by John Gunther

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

Quotes by Jessica Lange

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

Quotes by Jacob Weisberg

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

Quotes by Israel Zangwill

The nuclear family doesn't work. It's very destructive; it grew out of selfishness.

Quotes by Greg Wise

Why do I write? From selfishness. Because this state of liquefied, complex concentration, however faintly and dimly I'm able to perceive it, is the greatest pleasure I know.

Quotes by Francis Spufford

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.

Quotes by Ezra Taft Benson

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.

Quotes by Evo Morales

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.

Quotes by Ellen G. White

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

Quotes by Elizabeth Bowen

I don't like bullies or selfishness or people who are grumpy.

Quotes by Eddie the Eagle

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

Quotes by E. O. Wilson

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.

Quotes by E. W. Howe

There is a quality of selfishness that is associated with an individual when they are in the depths of addiction.

Quotes by David Dastmalchian

I think for anyone who follows the 'artistic life,' a certain amount of selfishness and self-involvement is part of the package. You're probably already disregarding a certain material life you could have.

Quotes by David Chase

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

Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

The poison of selfishness destroys the world.

Quotes by Catherine of Siena

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.

Quotes by Andrew Coyle Bradley

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