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Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

The selfishness must be discovered and understood before it can be removed. It is powerless to remove itself, neither will it pass away of itself. Darkness ceases only when light is introduced; so ignorance can only be dispersed by Knowledge; selfishness by Love.

James Allen

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.

John Comenius

"Öshort-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things..."

President Theodore Roosevelt

To be saved is only this,--salvation from our own selfishness.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.

Sir Arthur Helps

Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere

Blaise Pascal

When the body is filled with ego and selfishness, the cycle of birth and death does not end.

Sri Guru Granth Sahib

Very usually, altruism is only the sublimest form of selfishness.

Sri Aurobindo

Besides, I like epitaphs. Among civilized people they're an expression of that pious and secret selfishness that induces us to pull out of death a shred at least of the shade that has passed on.

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

We hear talk of sanctified selfishness, of the adorable expansion of one race across the others, of noble hatreds and glorious conquests, and we see these ideals trying to take shape on all hands.

Henri Barbusse

Professional standards, the standards of ambition and selfishness, are always sliding downward toward expense, ostentation, and mediocrity. They tend always to narrow the ground of judgment. But amateur standards, the standards of love, are always straining upward toward the humble and the best. They enlarge the ground of judgment. The context of love is the world.

Wendell Berry

There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness.

William Blake

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