Selfishness Quotes

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


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


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


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


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