Selfishness Quotes

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

Me Father Feeling Kid Out Emotionally He Unstable Because Malice Selfishness Left Did Dad Now Things

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision. Helen Keller

Love Joy Vision Mind Complaint Sharpens Clears Selfishness

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 Me Relationship You Strange Youth World Feeling Narcissism Own Skin Those Having Uncomfortable True Feel Around Selfishness Childhood Being Really Your Connected Things

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

Life You Creative Ambition Points Selfishness Where Your Necessary

Men's moral principles are weak enough without their being made subordinate to selfishness; and their selfishness is quite active enough, without any such effort as Christianity makes to constitute it the mainspring of all their conduct. Lysander Spooner

Made Men Active Christianity Enough Weak Moral Moral Principles Constitute Principles Without Makes Selfishness Conduct Effort Subordinate Any Quite Being

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

Women Men Weak Because Err Selfishness

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

Sympathy Virtue Consistent Selfishness Disguised Acknowledged

The ruling of men is the effort to direct the individual actions of many persons toward some end. This end theoretically should be the greatest good of all, but no human group has ever reached this ideal because of ignorance and selfishness. W. E. B. Du Bois

Good Ignorance Men Group Ruling Some Direct Individual Ideal Toward Reached Because Greatest Selfishness End Effort Human Persons Should Theoretically Many Actions Ever

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

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

We found evolution will punish you if you're selfish and mean. For a short time and against a specific set of opponents, some selfish organisms may come out ahead. But selfishness isn't evolutionarily sustainable. Chris Adami

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

Quality Addiction Individual Selfishness Depths Associated

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

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it. Douglas Horton

Value Sorry Seeing Only Highest Selfishness Being After Act

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 Injustice Will Ambition Control Human Nature Must Perfection Generations Exclude Come Selfishness Than Human Much Prejudice Many Now Nearer

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

Hope Impossible Selfishness Forlorn Pity Lovers Brief

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

Tyranny Parents Born Educational Methods Selfishness Slavery Two

Everything I had been taught to regard as a vice - and I still regard them as vices - under Thatcherism was in fact a virtue: Greed, selfishness, no care for the weaker, sharp elbows, sharp knees. Glenda Jackson

Care Greed Virtue Everything Weaker Fact Had Knees Sharp Still Been Selfishness Taught In Fact Vice Regard Vices Elbows Them

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

Work Family Out Destructive Selfishness Very Grew Nuclear

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

Politics Through Generalizations Selfishness Vested American Cannot Cut American Politics

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

Made Goodness Greed Generosity Stuff Selfishness Same Same Stuff Basically

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