Israel Zangwill Quotes

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.

If you are passionate only about yourself -that is the road to disaster.

It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to live.

In short, selfishness is the opposite of love.

A lot of comedians are selfish.

I'm just selfish. I have to be for what I do.

I am a very selfish person.

You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

We all get self-centered.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.

I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.

I'm selfish.

me-firstism

His fundamental interest throughout his life was himself.

The only one that matters is me. I am the only one that matters.

It was hard to love my wife and kids because I was all wrapped up in loving only myself. I did what I wanted, when I wanted, without any real concern for them.

Selfishness and self-absorption are deadly charm-exterminators.

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

It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.

Thread of Selfishness in Web of Life.—Deuteronomy contains much instruction regarding what the law is to us, and the relation we shall sustain to God as we reverence and obey