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There is nobody that can make you happy, you must take care of this matter yourself. — Leonora Carrington

There's no room for selfishness when you have a defenseless human being depending on you. — Mia Asher

Self-interest lies behind all that men do, forming the important motive for all their actions; this rule has never deceived me — Marquis De Sade

The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism ... Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness. — Rudolf Steiner

The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature. — William Graham Sumner

...the human animal is a selfish beast... — Tennessee Williams

You can look anywhere and find inspiration. — Frank Gehry

The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness. — Robert E. Ornstein

Blame is a human concept, one of its blackest and most selfish and self-binding. — Patrick Ness

Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Our best people don't go into politics. — Henry Steele Commager

I'm finally watching 'Mad Men.' As a child of the '60s, I can't believe how old everything looks! I am the age of baby Eugene. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Some people catch all the breaks, and the rest of us eat too many tamales. — Rebecca Adler

The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. — B.C. Forbes

Man is an extremely complex creature: he usually acts in an unselfish manner for selfish reasons. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It is unfortunate that for some, kindness is an unwarranted expenditure, compassion an avoidable weakness, and love an unnecessary gamble. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

Happiness thinks only of itself. — Raymond Radiguet

It's in our interests that the euro is a successful, strong currency. — George Osborne

The greatest productive force is human selfishness. — Robert A. Heinlein

Human selfishness being what it is, almost everyone kept the pleasant task for themselves. — Steven Pinker

If you wouldn't follow yourself, why should anyone else? — John C. Maxwell

You know how that feels? — Gary D. Schmidt

You can remember it if you want by unraveling the double helix of inner knowing. — Cherie Carter-Scott

[The lives of others come together in fragments. A light shining off a separate story can illuminate what had remained dark. — Lauren Groff

The hope is that if we can increase youthfulness, we can postpone age-related diseases. — Cynthia Kenyon

Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself. — Julio Cortazar

Legal plunder has two roots: One, as we have just seen, is in human selfishness; the other is in false philanthropy. — Frederic Bastiat

Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends. — Immanuel Kant

I don't use my body to seduce, no. I just stand there. — Ursula Andress

Like any man, he was coward enough to fear great force; but he was not quite coward enough to admire it. — G.K. Chesterton

In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction. — David Mitchell

That was the way with folk; full of sympathy for the plight of others until something was asked of them. — Sam J. Charlton

You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybodies attention in the same place. — Leo Kottke

Most human beings know only the language of exploitation. Due to their selfishness, they are unable to consider others. — Mata Amritanandamayi

Love is the doorway through which the human soul passes from selfishness to service. — Jack Hyles