selfishness

I am a beast until I love as God doth love.

Oh, mankind, race of crocodiles! How well I recognize you down there, and how worthy you are of yourselves!

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." &__hese capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people__ _

Back inside, I__ shown an antique cabinet in which members of the community, famous for their homegrown produce, dried herbs.The Oneida Community was an upstate tourist attraction right from the start, second, Valesky says, to Niagara Falls. I__ taking the same guided tour offered a hundred and fifty years ago to prim rubbernecks who came here to peep at sex fiends. I wonder how many of my vacationing forebears went home disappointed? They thought they were taking the train to Gomorrah but instead they got to watch herbs dry. Valesky opens a drawer in the herb cabinet so I can get a whiff. He mentions that back in the day, when one tourist was shown the cabinet she rudely asked her community-member guide, __hat__ that odor?_ To which the guide replied, __erhaps it__ the odor of crushed selfishness._ Valesky grins. __ow about that for a utopian answer?_ To my not particularly utopian nose, crushed selfishness smells a lot like cilantro.

Messages that emphasis on you! You!! Promotes selfishness.

Some people seem to have a black belt in selfishness... ninja narcissists with no regard to how they impact those around them_ but at the same time, a master at the art of playing victim.

She's very selfish. Not exactly self-centered, but totally indifferent to everyone and everything. Don't you agree?' 'I don't think that's possible,' said Mr Satterthwaite, slowly. 'I mean everyone's interest must go somewhere.

This selfishness is not only part of me. It is the most living part.It is somehow transcending rather than by avoiding that selfishness that I can bring poise and balance into my life.

To Love oneself is Ok but,to love only oneself isn't!

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... & ... Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative._

Some of us -" She paused as she sought the words. " - don't die unless we want to. The selfish ones never do.

You are not a better or wiser person simply because you__e ceased to care.

Their arrogance protected them against any liking for their fellow-man, against the slightest interest in the strangers sitting all about them, amidst whom M. de Stermaria adopted the manner one has in the buffet-car of a train, grim, hurried, stand-offish, brusque, fastidious and spiteful, surrounded by other passengers whom one has never seen before, whom one will never see again and towards whom the only conceivable way of behaving is to make sure that they keep away from one's cold chicken and stay out of one's chosen corner-seat.

Selfishness creates greed and greed destroys the soul.

...For I do now know that it is cowardly. We do not have the right to think only of poetry on this earth. It is magical, but utterly selfish.

Pseudo idealism: apparent charitable behaviour that on scrutiny is revealed as selfish, because the giver is engaging in it only so that he or she can feel good about him or herself

...the human animal is a selfish beast...

What a strange sort of love, to be entirely free from that quality of selfishness which is frequently the chief constituent of the passion, and sometimes it's only one!