Quotes about Selfishness

Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.

Doth any man live more to himself, or less to God, than the proud?

Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.

Many people are willing to be God-centered as long as they feel that God is man-centered

The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other.

No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next.

False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.

Every selfish man, strangely enough, becomes a self slayer

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

In effect, a selfish and boundless thirst for power and material prosperity leads both to the misuse of available natural resources and to the exclusion of the weak and the disadvantaged.