Arthur Helps Quotes

Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides.

Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.

The natural life in each of us is something self-centred, something that wants to be petted and admired, to take advantage of other lives, to exploit the whole universe.

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.

Selfishness is the only real atheism.

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism... Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness.

The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self.

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

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

A lot of comedians are selfish.

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

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

I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!

me-firstism

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

Selfishness and self-absorption are deadly charm-exterminators.

It is selfishness which is the cause of most of our misery.

To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.

Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification.

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

Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.

Strikers are egotists, selfish. We have to be.