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Tag Name "Selfishness" (336)

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Selfishness and separatation have led me to believe that the world is not my problem. I am the world.
Edward Kowalczyk
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Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.
Harry S. Truman
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Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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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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Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.
Aristotle
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Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.
Arthur Helps
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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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Selfishness does not mean only to do things for one's self. One may do things, affecting others, for his own pleasure and benefit. This is not immoral, but the highest of morality.
Ayn Rand
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Selfishness and fear are at the root of (pro-abortion) legislation...We in the Church have a great struggle to defend life...life is a gift not a threat.
Pope Benedict XVI
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Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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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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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 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 making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.
John Owen
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Selfishness is the controlling force of sinful living. It is this motive which pulsates through the natural mind, emotions and will - self-pleasing, self-serving, living for self.
Walter J Chantry
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Selfishness in art, as in other things, is sensibility kept at home.
Washington Allston
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Selfishness makes Christmas a burden Love makes it a delight. The joy of brightening a child's heart creates the magic of Christmas.
William Carey Jones
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Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.
William Wilberforce
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Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant.
Madame Roland
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Selfishness is blind.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.
Oscar Wilde
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Selfishness at the core is to think you have a special problem- a problem that God cannot deal with, that God didn’t deal with at the cross. You do not have anything special that has been dealt out to you.
Eric Ludy
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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 has never been admired.
C. S. Lewis
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