820 Quotes About Selfishness
- Author Hannah More
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Our infinite obligations to God do not fill our hearts half as much as a petty uneasiness of our own; nor His infinite perfections as much as our smallest wants.
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- Author Harriet Martineau
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It never enters the lady's head that the wet-nurse's baby probably dies.
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- Author James Martineau
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We can neither change nor overpower God's eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness.
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- Author Ludwig von Mises
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Under a socialist mode of production all personal incentives which selfishness provides under capitalism are removed, and a premium is put upon laziness and negligence. Whereas in a capitalist society selfishness incites everyone to the utmost diligence, in a socialist society it makes for inertia and laxity.
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- Author Neal A. Maxwell
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Selfishness is much more than an ordinary problem because it activates all the cardinal sins! It is the detonator in the breaking of the Ten Commandments.
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- Author Neal A. Maxwell
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Thus worshiping, serving, studying, praying, each in its own way squeezes selfishness out of us; pushes aside our preoccupations with the things of the world.
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- Author Neal A. Maxwell
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The hardest work you and I will ever do is to put off our selfishness. It is heavy lifting!
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- Author Thomas B. Macaulay
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I am always nearest to myself," says the Latin proverb.
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- Author Lauren Oliver
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Amor deliria nervosa isn't a disease of love. It's a disease of selfishness.
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