#selfish

[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing. ↗

— Aristophanes

#attributes #barter #character #demagoguery #government

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. ↗

— Albert Camus

#self-centeredness #selfishness #happy

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#lonely #many #seem #selfish #would

If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked almost any of the great Christians of old he would have replied, Love- You see what has happened? A negative term has been substituted for a positive, and this is of more than philological importance. The negative ideal of Unselfishness carries with it the suggestion not primarily of securing good things for others, but of going without them ourselves, as if our abstinence and not their happiness was the important point. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#unselfishness #virtue #weight-of-glory #love

A motto of many politicians, public servants and money bags: Ask not 'What can I do for you?' but 'What can I do you for? ↗

— H.M. Forester

#public-service #selfishness #money

I just decided that I would not put my professional life on hold to raise children. I know that sounds selfish to a lot of people and I don't know if what I'm doing is the right thing. But that's the way I'm doing it. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

#decided #doing #hold #i #just

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

#efforts #governments #law #liberty #man

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

#bequeathed #charities #essence #even #nothing

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's. ↗

— Richard Whately

#called #his #man #neglecting #neighbor

It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#always #bulk #chores #doing #even