Quotes by Selfishness Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with. Samuel Richardson selfishness marriage order Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven. Samuel Taylor Coleridge selfishness alcohol heaven The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice. Samuel Smiles selfishness ignorance evil All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness. Samuel Taylor Coleridge selfishness virtue sympathy I don't think the revisionist historians are accurate. I think their agendas are clouded by selfishness and anger and rage. Sherman Alexie agendas selfishness thinking Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism. Sri Aurobindo selfishness hypocrisy enemy It is an act of extreme selfishness for a married couple to refuse to have children when they are able to do so. Spencer W. Kimball selfishness couple children Now is the time to set your life's goals. Now is the time to set your standards firmly and then hold to them throughout your life. Spencer W. Kimball standards selfishness goal Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or both parties to a marriage contract. Spencer W. Kimball divorce selfishness party Turkey, Japan do great work because they can keep under control their little personal selfishness, egoism, jealousy, etc. when they get down to work. Sri Aurobindo turkeys selfishness japan Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness. Stefan Molyneux complexes selfishness simple Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life. Stendhal desert selfishness fool One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. Susan Sontag selfishness messages want Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice. Swami Vivekananda selfishness coward causes It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself. Tanith Lee selfishness selfish writing [The seers call him wise] whose every attempt is free, without any desire for gain, without any selfishness. Swami Vivekananda selfishness wise desire He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies. Tertullian selfishness benefits life It will require more than a few hours of fasting and prayer to cast out such demons as selfishness, worldliness, and unbelief. Repentance, to be of any avail, must work a change of heart and of conduct. Theodore L. Cuyler selfishness prayer heart Did the mass of men know the actual selfishness and injustice of their rulers, not a government would stand a year. - The world would foment with revolution. Theodore Parker selfishness men years I am always nearest to myself," says the Latin proverb. Thomas B. Macaulay latin-proverb selfishness latin «678910111213141516»
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