Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.
It is not up to us to particularize, but rather to deduce that the concepts of human rights originated from the divine influence because, as far as we are concerned, we are compelled to recognize our slow individual evolution from fierce selfishness toward a universal love, from the iniquity toward true justice.
Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.
The greatest comforts and lasting peace are obtained, when one eradicates selfishness from within.
When marriage exposes a person's selfishness and sins it's doing what it is meant to do: bringing our sins and wounds to light so we can recognize them, confess them, and begin the healing process.
Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.
The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism. . . Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness.
Selfishness is the root of great evil.
Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
Adultery is a meanness and a stealing, a taking away from someone what should be theirs, a great selfishness, and surrounded and guarded by lies lest it should be found out. And out of meanness and selfishness and lying flow love and joy and peace beyond anything that can be imagined.
He who does most to cure woman of her weakness, her frivolity, and her servility will likewise at the same stroke do most to cure man of his brutality, his selfishness and his sensuality.
One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves.
That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own, hardly at all of the common interest; and only when he is himself concerned as an individual. For besides other considerations, everybody is more inclined to neglect the duty which he expects another to fulfill.
Though selfishness hath defiled the whole man, yet sensual pleasure is the chief part of its interest, and, therefore, by the senses it commonly works; and these are the doors and windows by which iniquity entereth into the soul.
Many a good intention dies from inattention. If, through carelessness or indolence, or selfishness, a good intention is not put into effect, we have lost an opportunity, demoralized ourselves, and stolen from the pile of possible good. To be born and not fed, is to perish. To launch a ship and neglect it is to lose it. To have a talent and bury it, is to be a "wicked and slothful servant. " For in the end we shall be judged, not alone by what we have done, but by what we could have done.
Selfishness keeps man blind through life.
Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.
The planet should not be used as a warehouse of resources to serve humanity's selfishness
Love. . . [is] a lack of personal selfishness.
How to Win Friends and Influence People.