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Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with.
The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.
It is an act of extreme selfishness for a married couple to refuse to have children when they are able to do so.
Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.
Lust is raw selfishness. It's all about my wants, my needs, my pleasure. Most love songs are actually lust songs.
Like nature itself, modern economic life is driven by relentless competition and unbridled selfishness. Or is it?
There is a quality of selfishness that is associated with an individual when they are in the depths of addiction.
We are not slow at discovering the selfishness of others; for this plain reason--because it clashes with our own.
Nothing is more condemnable than selfishness. A man who thinks of himself alone is the most unlucky person of all.
Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.
Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
Basketball is the opposite of selfishness, basketball is solely about giving and sharing and caring for one another.
My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful
My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful.
Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness.
As you help those in need, selfishness will fall away. And, without even noticing you will find your own fulfillment.
The vital Christian arouses opposition because he is a standing rebuke to the selfishness and sin of those around him.
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
Most human beings know only the language of exploitation. Due to their selfishness, they are unable to consider others.
One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going back.
There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world.
Love is the most ethically consistent experience, because selfishness and altruism no longer seem opposed or in conflict.
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness.
One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.
What's the matter with the world? Why, there ain't nothing but one word wrong with everyone of us, and that's selfishness.
Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.
I don't think the revisionist historians are accurate. I think their agendas are clouded by selfishness and anger and rage.
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism... Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness.
A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.
Be, as many now are, luxurious to yourself, parsimonious to your friends. [Lat., Esto, ut nunc multi, dives tibi pauper amicis.]
It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.
Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.
Now is the time to set your life's goals. Now is the time to set your standards firmly and then hold to them throughout your life.
Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
Fatherhood: How God blesses you out of your selfishness and floods your soul with love, all while reminding you how little you know.
If there were more temple work done in the Church, there would be less of selfishness, less of contention, less of demeaning others.
Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his gods.
It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.
Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities that make me the lovable chap I am.
It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative.
If I had my mouth, I would bite; if I had my liberty, I would do my liking. In the meantime, let me be that I am, and seek not toalter me.
There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.
By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society.