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Tag Name "Selfish" (709)

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Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses.
Charles Evans Hughes
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Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
Erich Fromm
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Selfish people, with no heart to speak of, have the best time of it.
Josh Billings
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Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights
Maria Weston Chapman
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Selfish prudence is too often allowed to come between duty and human life.
Rebecca Lee Crumpler
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Selfish-gene theory tells us nothing about the value of interacting through language.
Noam Chomsky
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
Jane Austen
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Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations.
Alan Keyes
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Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.
William E. Gladstone
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Selfish is caring for ourselves at others' expense ... Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.
Bill Crawford
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Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary.
David Sloan Wilson
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Selfishness is weakness. But loving and caring for others is a position of power beyond anything we can possibly imagine.
Joel Osteen
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Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant.
Madame Roland
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Selfish men make the best lovers. They're prepared to invest in the women's pleasures so that they can collect an even bigger dividend for themselves.
J. G. Ballard
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Selfish isn't a dirty word. It means we take care of ourselves and are able to give back.
Jillian Michaels
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Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful prayer into a weak and ineffective one.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
Ambrose Bierce
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Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.
George Eliot
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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
William Jennings Bryan
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Selfish is easy. It's sharing that takes courage.
Simon Sinek
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Selfish is an exploitation of others for self selfless is an exploitation of self for others. Both are extrinsic. ..... Selfness. When selfness prevails, the qualities of others are sometimes used for self and the qualities of self are often extended to others. The basic and key difference is that exploitation is never the object of the outcome.
Bob Samples
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We put out a certain energy and we are a certain type of guy. I think the way we played out there for instance, we were down with a few minutes left and instead of everybody breaking apart or being selfish, I think we just pulled together.
Cleanthony Early
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