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"No selfishness or insecurity kept him from seeing the full extent of her goodness, as it so often does with the rest of us. That kind of love may only be possible in Abnegation. I do not know."
"The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness."
"The greatest productive force is human selfishness."
"Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life."
"Selfishness has never been admired."
"Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish."
"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 His Spirit we can never be freed from the chains of selfishness, jealousy, and indifference. Will others see Christ's love in your life today?"
"The planet should not be used as a warehouse of resources to serve humanity's selfishness"
"The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others."
"We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration."
"Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice."
"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 property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber."
"I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea."
"The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade."
"Did the mass of men know the actual selfishness and injustice of their rulers, not a government would stand a year. - The world would foment with revolution."
"Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative."
"Lessen selfishness and restrain desires."
"Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions."
"Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples."
"Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about me."
