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The planet should not be used as a warehouse of resources to serve humanity's selfishness
This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.
I learned that no man in God's wide earth is either willing or able to help any other man.
Every time we give in to selfishness and say “No” to God, we spoil his loving plan for us.
Selfishness even binds many people, but blindly without having any liking for one another.
We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness behind.
Go to the cross of Christ, all you that want to be delivered from the power of selfishness.
there were people who occupied telephone booths as though they had rented them for the day.
We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness.
The hardest work you and I will ever do is to put off our selfishness. It is heavy lifting!
The fawning courtier and the surly squire often mean the same thing,--each his own interest.
It is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness.
While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.
We can neither change nor overpower God's eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness.
I have freedom. But freedom means total selfishness. It means nobody cares much what you do.
There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
I think marriage becomes a great mirror. My selfishness comes out in my marriage all the time.
I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.
We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.
If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!
The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.
As you can see marriage is about putting away selfishness and taking on the concept of teamwork.
It is to be doubted whether he will ever find the way to heaven who desires to go thither alone.
If we do not cling to riches, selfishness or greed - then I believe we are getting closer to God.
The greatest comforts and lasting peace are obtained, when one eradicates selfishness from within.
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.
The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
Camera but no selfies, which represent selfishness and egotism. Social media? Again: not really me.
One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves.
Selfishness and separatation have led me to believe that the world is not my problem. I am the world.
The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness.
Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or both parties to a marriage contract.
stinginess seemed instinctive to him. Darwinian even. He hadn't gotten to his current size by sharing.
Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.
A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.
I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.
There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.
So it is the fear, weakness, selfishness, and cowardice of onlookers that permit evil behavior to persist.
It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
We should awaken feelings of respect for each other. In other words, awaken the desire to kill selfishness.
For me, I wanted to create something that's much more driven by a type of selfishness, a type of decadence.
Getting enough of what you want without depriving anyone else is the ultimate act of selfishness and sanity.
[The seers call him wise] whose every attempt is free, without any desire for gain, without any selfishness.