Quotes: Selfishness

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

Let us reject violence and selfishness which could destroy our country’s unity.

Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

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.