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Quotes About Selfishness

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to life. Selfishness always aims at crating around it an absolutely uniformity of type.
~ Oscar Wilde
That man who lives for self alone, lives for the meanest mortal known.
~ Joaquin Miller
Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and oral evils.
~ Nathaniel Emmons
The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be.
~ Bill Lee
Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.
~ Aesop
All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot immediately!
~ Douglas Noel Adams
Self-indulgence produces a vanity of all vanities.
~ Unknown
In a world of self indulgence your attitude is going to be your biggest obstacle because you're only concerned with yourself!
~ Unknown
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.
~ Oscar Wilde
Self-centered people always end up with the one they love most...their self
~ Unknown
Self obsessed boys who always go on like their so great in bed should be shot.
~ Unknown
My self portrait shows a man that the wealth tortured, self-absorbed with his own self-forfeit.
~ Unknown
Some people dont know the difference between thinking for yourself and thinking of yourself.
~ Unknown
The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
~ Leigh Hunt
She was a goddamn unicorn of selfishness.
~ Unknown
A divorcée empty nester who didn't regret her solitude? She was a goddamn unicorn of selfishness.
~ Unknown
He tried to forget what he'd discovered, how little other lives mattered to him when his own was at stake.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Every man for himself and the Devil for all.
~ Unknown
Never help a person who doesn't help anybody else.
~ Unknown
Some people don't know the difference between thinking for yourself and thinking of yourself.
~ Unknown
There is not much difference between a greedy person and a pauper.
~ Unknown
To the degree that a person thinks and acts in accordance with God's nature and commands, he is moral. Otherwise, there is no moral difference between altruism and selfishness; virtue and vice are meaningless concepts; rape and murder are not crimes, but amoral events.
~ Unknown
So many worthless people relying on French protection are enabled to sin against me with impunity, and nobody now feels that he has any duties toward me; everybody does as he pleases and is actuated by base and selfish motives. I have thus lost more than two-thirds of a fortune that was never very considerable. That is hard, but harder than everything else is my present condition.
~ Unknown