Pastoral Resources

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

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

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.

As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

How sick one gets of being 'good,' how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.