“People don’t want other people to be people.” — Gene Wolfe, Shadow & Claw

“One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.” — Mother Teresa

“As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.” — Helen Keller

“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.” — Jane Austen

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.” — Oscar Wilde

“No man will work for your interests unless they are his.” — David Seabury

“Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

“We don’t live in an ideal world, but in a world dominated by sinful, selfish desires.” — Billy Graham

“A person is called selfish, not for pursuing his or her own good, but for neglecting his or her neighbor’s.” –Richard Whatly

“Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other people but justify in ourselves.” — Stephen Kendrick

“Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.” — Erich Fromm

“The world is such a useless place, that’s all I can think of now. It’s full of hypocrites, liars, and selfish people.” — Cameron Jace

“Selfishness at the expense of others is bad. Self-care for the betterment of others is good.” – Richie Norton

“That man who lives for self alone lives for the meanest mortal known.” — Joaquin Miller

“If everyone begins to think selfishly, the world becomes a wicked world.” — Sunday Adelaja

“Survival is a passive way of saying “my needs are greater than yours.” — Caroline George

“Selfishness may result in one’s sense of superiority, but life as such will surely deny them.” – Eraldo Banovac

“Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other people but justify in ourselves.” – Stephen Kendrick

“If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.” –P.G. Wodehouse

“Selfish- a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.” –George Eliot

“Selfishness is the most unattractive virtue a mortal can possess.” — Suyasha Subedi

“Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.” –Harry S. Truman

“The best weapon for selfishness is selfishness for the cause of others.” – Enock Maregesi

“Putting someone before yourself is possible only if that is done literally.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect.” — George Sand

“The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.” — Bryant McGill

“Charity does not like arithmetic; selfishness worships it.” — Mason Cooley

“We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.” — Booker T. Washington

“Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.” — William E. Gladstone

“No man is more cheated than the selfish man.” — Henry Ward Beecher

“Selfish people try to keep or get things but they lose people.” — Hannah Garrison

“Everyone is the most important person in the world to themselves.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana