5 Quotes Regarding Selfishness


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

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.
François La Rochefoucauld

We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we now know that it is bad economics.
Franklin Roosevelt

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.
Tacitus

A man is called selfish, not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting the neighbor's.
Richard Whately