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Selfishness is not a virtue. Altruism is not a moral weakness. Taxation is the price we pay for civilization.
— Darryl Cunningham
Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
— E. O. Wilson
THE SECRET GARDEN
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
Remember, if you write anything nasty about me, I'll come around and blow up your toilet.
— Courtney Love
Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.
— Duke Ellington
No man can ever raise above that that which he aims.
— Archibald Alexander Hodge
I was allowed to play at philosophy no longer.
— C.S. Lewis
Brevity is pivotal to clarity.
— Suyog Ketkar
Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
— Gore Vidal
[I]f [we] believe in [ourselves], [we] can accomplish anything.
— Greg Mortenson
While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.
— Oliver Goldsmith
We must lengthen our stride and must do it now because we over ate and feel fat.
— Spencer W. Kimball
This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.
— Jessica Lange
It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
CHAPTER LX CHIEFLY MATRIMONIAL
— Charles Dickens