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The purpose of #wealth is to #heal and not to #hoard. In your selfishness with your wealth you renounce your claim to it. – Justice Calo Reign	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, when bequeathed by those who. when alive, would not have contributed. – Charles Caleb Colton	added by anonymous 10 years ago
There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone. Oh, she can get along financially perhaps (though not nearly as well as a man), but emotionally she is never left in peace. Her friends, her family, her fellow workers never let her forget that her husbandlessness, her childlessness -- her selfishness, in short -- is a reproach to the American way of life. – Erica Jong	added by anonymous 10 years ago
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the vulgar great, the vainly rich, the miserable proud, the mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, and with blind feelings reverence the power that grinds them to the dust of misery. – Percy Bysshe Shelley	added by anonymous 10 years ago
How a sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! He is his own exclusive object. Supreme selfishness is inculcated in him as his only duty, – Charles Lamb	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it. – Edgar Watson Howe	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance. – Graham Greene	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The common good of a collective -- a race, a class, a state -- was the claim and justification of every tyranny ever established over men. Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equaled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism? Does the fault lie in men's hypocrisy or in the nature of the principle? The most dreadful butchers were the most sincere. The believed in the perfect society reached through the guillotine and the firing squad. Nobody questioned their right to murder since they were murdering for an altruistic purpose. It was accepted that man must be sacrificed for other men. Actors change, but the course of the tragedy remains the same. A humanitarian who starts with the declarations of love for mankind and ends with a sea of blood. It goes on and will go on so long as men believe that an action is good if it is unselfish. That permits the altruist to act and forces his victims to bear it. The leaders of collectivist movements ask nothing of themselves. But observe the results. – Ayn Rand	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Manifest plainness,Embrace simplicity,Reduce selfishness,Have few desires. – Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over lousy fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average of the world's great civilizations before they decline has been 200 years. These nations have progressed in this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to Complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage. – Alexander Fraser Tyler, Cycle of Democracy (1770)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable. – C. S. Lewis	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live. – Oscar Wilde	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The greatest productive force is human selfishness. – Robert A. Heinlein	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation. – John Sturart Mill, Defence of Hedonism	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men. – John Randolph	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out. – Nick Richardson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. – Oscar Wilde	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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. – John Kenneth Galbraith	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires. – Lao Tzu	added by anonymous 14 years ago
What we won when all of our people united ... must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. ... Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president. – Lyndon B. Johnson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness. – Albert Camus	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker. The example of great and pure individuals is the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and irresistibly invites abuse. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus or Ghandi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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