Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait..

Selfishness is blind..

There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary..

It is to be doubted whether he will ever find the way to heaven who desires to go thither alone..

We had one or another form of state capitalism during an extremely brief period of human history, which tells us essentially nothing about human natu….

Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism..

Only God can give us a selfless love for others, as the Holy Spirit changes us from within. This is one reason we must receive Christ, for apart from….

I don't think there's any need to have essays advocating selfishness among human beings; I don't know what your impression has been, but some things ….

Amor deliria nervosa isn't a disease of love. It's a disease of selfishness..

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

A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action..

When marriage exposes a person's selfishness and sins it's doing what it is meant to do: bringing our sins and wounds to light so we can recognize th….

A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which….

It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves..

Every time we give in to selfishness and say “No” to God, we spoil his loving plan for us..

Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must strip sensuality of its pomp, and….

If you could leave your selfishness, you would see how you've been torturing your soul..

It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which i….

So it is the fear, weakness, selfishness, and cowardice of onlookers that permit evil behavior to persist..

A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness..

By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring proper….