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

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice.

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

There are selves too big for one person to contain. You cannot call them selfish. There is nothing -ish about such selves. They are the self, as it were, itself.

Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.

Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.

There is a quality of selfishness that is associated with an individual when they are in the depths of addiction.

I don't know if it's ever OK for someone to be selfish. Perhaps there's a time and place to be self-centered, but I think selfish never wins the race.