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How to use the word selfishness in a Sentence?

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Who won tonight was absolutely hands down the people — the people won, and who lost? Who lost unequivocally? Selfishness lost.

Jim Justice

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The duplicitous world has set enough examples of how self-love doesn’t portray selfishness rather selfishness portrays self-love.

Shayan Das

added by anonymous
1 year ago

The nature of the encroachment upon American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer; it eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the pensioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity and frugality become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, luxury, foppery, selfishness, meanness, and downright venality swallow up the whole of society.

John Adams

added by Normando
1 year ago

Even if opportunities don't come to you because of the selfishness of others, don't give up on your ability.

Wesley D'Amico

added by WesleyD'Amico
2 years ago

Today we see a form of selfishness. We see that people do not want to have children, or just one and no more. And many, many couples do not have children because they do not want to, or they have just one -- but they have two dogs, two cats... Yes, dogs and cats take the place of children, this denial of fatherhood or motherhood diminishes us, it takes away our humanity.

The Pope

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When people are discontent(ed) they tend to become more self-concerned, which in turn, becomes self-centeredness, thus leading to selfishness, i have often noticed that relationships are ruined because of one selfish person.

Sharie Stines

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There is no Arnold on the ballot this time -- there's nobody with that broad love that Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger had when Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger went in, i think the 2003 election is their excuse, but it's mostly motivated out of selfishness to keep Gavin Newsom.

Kevin Paffrath

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think the 2003 election is their excuse, but it's mostly motivated out of selfishness to keep Gavin Newsom.

Kevin Paffrath

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I can honestly say I’ve never really been on a team where we had a bullpen like this, there’s zero selfishness here.

Kris Bryant

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Rand Eberhard came in to check on a guy and help the guy, and this is what happens, it's an act of evil. It's an act of selfishness.

Gene Siller

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

Richard Bach

added by YashaaGlobal
3 years ago

The real human being is a mixture of both selfishness and selflessness, modern-day economists have thrown away the selfless.

Development Initiative -RRB- Yunus

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers, and destroyers press upon them so fast, that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachment upon the American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the pensioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited, and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity, and frugality, become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, luxury, foppery, selfishness, meanness, and downright venality swallow up the whole society.

John Adams

added by Normando
4 years ago

Putting aside vanities and selfishness, practicing honesty, industriousness and decency, we will also be contributing to GDP.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Even with all its positive attributes, capitalism in its imperialistic form is the most treacherous system mankind ever devised. It is driven by a selfishness that has an almost religious underlining to it.”

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

added by anonymous
5 years ago

It is the truth. All men are partners. In a partnership with each other. As one people. We cannot change the past, present or future of this fact. We are born equal. And we will all die equal. The truth will prevail. Selfishness will not win. We stand together as one. With a force of many.”

Jamela Dunbar

added by Eside
5 years ago

I am for myself in favor of mechanisms that indeed take this into account, you can't have countries that massively benefit from the solidarity of the European Union and that massively voice their national selfishness when it comes to migrant issues.

Emmanuel Macron

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Any kind of help that can stop people from running red lights, to me, is a benefit because I would hate to see another mother or another family lose a loved one just because of selfishness and people being in a hurry and thinking they can get away with it.

Barbara Hoffman

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I like a cat because it does not disguise its selfishness with any flattering hypocrisies. Its attachment is not to yourself, but to your house. Let it but have food, and a warm lair among the embers, and it heeds not at whose expense. Then it has the spirit to resent aggression. You shall beat your dog, and he will fawn upon you; but a cat never forgives : it has no tender mercies, and it torments before it destroys its prey.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

added by Madeleine Quinn
7 years ago

Whether wealth bring the curse of selfishness along with it, or that the leaven was in our nature, only dormant till called forth by circumstances, we are only too apt to misuse it, even as others have done before us.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

added by Madeleine Quinn
7 years ago

Nothing is too unreasonable nor too unkind for selfishness, acted upon by vanity.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

added by Madeleine Quinn
7 years ago

Regardless, heterosexual marriage is largely in trouble today because people see it as a selfish means of pleasing self, rather than a committed relationship in which the focus is on meeting the needs of the partner, that sense of selfishness and the redefinition of love as to something that is purely sentimental and emotional, has been destructive.

Mike Huckabee

Found on CNN
8 years ago

the world are made of Selfishness but the biggest problem is myself

Mammasse aissa

added by anonymous
9 years ago

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

William Howard Taft

added by anonymous
9 years ago

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