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Selfishness Quotes by Famous Authors

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1. “You can be kind, while still being selfish.”

Ankur Warikoo

Kindness, Selfishness, Balance, Intention, Character

2. “Immoderate grief is selfish, harmful, brings no advantage to either the mourner or the mourned, and dishonors the dead.”

Plutarch

Grief, Loss, Selfishness, Wisdom, Honor

3. “The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God.”

Thomas Merton

Selfishness, Pleasure, Truth, Faith, Reflection

4. “To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.”

Thomas Merton

Selfishness, Perspective, Morality, Awareness, Consequence

5. “To love blindly is to love selfishly, because the goal of such love is not the real advantage of the beloved but only the exercise of love in our own souls.”

Thomas Merton

Love, Selfishness, Relationships, Understanding, Growth

6. “Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.”

Anton Chekhov

Selfishness, Identity, Morality, Philosophy, Loss

7. “Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.”

Stendhal

Selfishness, Life, Reality, Individualism, Struggle

8. “Our true passions are selfish.”

Stendhal

Passion, Selfishness, Human Nature, Desire, Emotion

9. “Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.”

Charlie Chaplin

Dictatorship, Oppression, Freedom, Power, Selfishness

10. “Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.”

Henry Ward Beecher

Selfishness, Vice, Forgiveness, Human Nature, Reflection

11. “Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war, utterly shattered.”

Henry Ward Beecher

Selfishness, Wealth, Happiness, Values, Humanity

12. “No man is more cheated than the selfish man.”

Henry Ward Beecher

Selfishness, Loss, Consequences, Truth, Perspective

13. “Selfishness at the expense of others’ happiness is demonism.”

Henry Ward Beecher

Selfishness, Happiness, Others, Morality, Harm

14. “To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.”

Gustave Flaubert

Happiness, Stupidity, Selfishness, Health, Irony

15. “We are all mortals, and each is for himself.”

Moliere

Mortality, Selfishness, Life, Reality, Survival

16. “Just each of us being me, me, me first. The murderer, the victim, the witness each of us thinks our role is the lead. Probably that goes for anybody in the world.”

Chuck Palahniuk

Selfishness, Role, Perspective, Identity, Human Nature

17. “Real people don’t learn how to be unselfish. But maybe they can be more self-aware for a second that they are. Or perhaps they are patheticly more unaware. How do you cure somebody of selfishness? Send them to Mother Teresa school? There’s something deep-seated about selfishness.”

Amy Tan

Selfishness, Awareness, Human Nature, Reflection, Change

18. “To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness – though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.”

Julian Barnes

Happiness, Stupidity, Selfishness, Health, Perspective

19. “The sinful nature is all about self: pleasing self, promoting self, preserving self. Sin is selfish.”

Max Lucado

Sin, Selfishness, Faith, Morality, Human Nature

20. “If one wants to be an ox one can easily turn one’s back on human suffering and look after one’s own skin.”

Karl Marx

Ox, Suffering, Selfishness, Humanity, Morality

21. “America was built on rugged individualism, and today that has evolved into a culture of narcissism. But God didn’t create you to live for you. If you want to follow Jesus, you have to put aside your selfish ambition.”

Rick Warren

Selfishness, God, Jesus, Faith, Ambition

22. “Lust is raw selfishness. It’s all about my wants, my needs, my pleasure. Most love songs are actually lust songs.”

Rick Warren

Lust, Selfishness, Love, Desire, Morality

23. “It is impossible to be both selfish and happy.”

Joyce Meyer

Selfishness, Happiness, Fulfillment, Contentment, Relationships

24. “What’s the matter with the world? Why, there ain’t nothing but one word wrong with everyone of us, and that’s selfishness.”

Will Rogers

World, Selfishness, Humanity, Social Issues, Moral Values

25. “Unselfishness is God. One may live on a throne, in a golden palace, and be perfectly unselfish; and then he is in God. Another may live in a hut and wear rags, and have nothing in the world; yet, if he is selfish, he is intensely merged in the world.”

Swami Vivekananda

Unselfishness, God, Selfishness, Service, Life

26. “The ecological crisis in the world had become so obviously serious that Pope John Paul II felt the need to rebuke the wealthy classes of the industrialized nations for creating that crisis: “Today, the dramatic threat of ecological breakdown is teaching us the extent to which greed and selfishness, both individual and collective, are contrary to the order of creation.””

Howard Zinn

Ecological Crisis, Greed, Selfishness, Pope John Paul II, Environment

27. “It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.”

Richard Dawkins

Altruism, Selfishness, Behavior, Human Nature, Psychology

28. “We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.”

Richard Dawkins

Evolution, Rebellion, Selfishness, Replicators, Humanity

29. “Heaven: A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound on yours.”

Ambrose Bierce

Afterlife, Selfishness, Irony, Social Interaction, Religious Satire

30. “An egotist is a person of low taste – more interested in himself than in me.”

Ambrose Bierce

Selfishness, Humor, Narcissism, Self-importance, Social Critique

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