820 Quotes About Selfishness
- Author Julio Cortázar
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Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.
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- Author Marcus Tullius Cicero
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It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.
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- Author Mason Cooley
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Charity does not like arithmetic; selfishness worships it.
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- Author Mason Cooley
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My self-absorption warms me; yours boils me.
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- Author Tyler Cowen
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Economics is sometimes associated with the study and defense of selfishness and material inequality, but it has an egalitarian and civil libertarian core that should be celebrated.
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- Author Charles Dance
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You have to be selfish to be an actor.
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- Author Richard Dawkins
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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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- Author Jonathan Edwards
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If you seek in the spirit of selfishness, to grasp all as your own, you shall lose all, and be driven out of the world, at last, naked and forlorn, to everlasting poverty and contempt.
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- Author Owen Feltham
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It is to be doubted whether he will ever find the way to heaven who desires to go thither alone.
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