Selfishness

Selfishness

Selfishness is placing concern with oneself or one's own interests above the well-being or interests of others. Selfishness is the opposite of altruism or selflessness.

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Famous quotes containing the word selfishness:

    “Charity does not like arithmetic; selfishness worships it.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that to-day is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.”
    —William Howard Taft (1857–1930)

    “We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. Maugre 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.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)