Selfish
Definition: (Of a person, action, or motive) lacking consideration for other people; concerned chiefly with one's own personal profit or pleasure.
Number of Quotes: 5
Men who continue hoarding great sums all their lives, the proper use of which for the public ends would work good to
the community, should be made to feel that the community, in the form of the state, cannot thus be deprived of its proper
share. By taxing estates heavily at death the state marks its condemnation of the selfish millionaire's unworthy life.
Andrew Carnegie
We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption,
setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about the people and the planet Earth.
Evo Morales
The more good I do, the more money has come in. You have to learn to give. You're not born to give. You're born selfish.
Ted Turner
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde
If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character
is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish pig.
Woodrow Wilson