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:

    “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)

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

    “Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.”
    —Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)