Quotes about Selfishness

He knew that beauty faded quickly when embodied by selfishness...

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

For him freedom meant doing exactly what you wanted all the time. Was that freedom for everybody?

The temptation for farandola or for man or for star is to stay an immature pleasure-seeker. When we seek our own pleasure as the ultimate good we place ourselves as the center of the universe

He's not good for you, Omio said. He wants too much. He is someone who takes. He does not give.

The fruit of the Spirit is love." Why? Because nothing but love can expel and conquer our selfishness.

One of the worst things sin did for man was to make him selfish, for selfishness cannot love.

Love Conquers Selfishness "The fruit of the Spirit is love." Why? Because nothing but love can expel and conquer our selfishness.

Is there such depravity in man as that he should injure another without benefit to himself?

The Bible is very clear that in the last days men will be "lovers of themselves" (2 Tim. 3:2).

For so blindly do we all rush in the direction of self-love, that every one thinks he has a good reason for exalting himself and despising all others in comparison.