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| Själviskhet är mänsklighetens största förbannelse. | William E. Gladstone (1809-1898) |
| Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it. | Louis Kronenberger (1904-1980) |
| Modesty and unselfishness: These are the virtues which men praise, and pass by | André Maurois (1885-1967) |
| There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us. | Dr. Laurence J. Peter (1919-1990) |
| It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones. | Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-) |
| Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race | William E. Gladstone (1809-1898) |
| Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself | Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) |
| Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion. | Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) |
| Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness | Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) |
| All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness | Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) |
| And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing. | Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) |
| Two may keep counsel, putting one away | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Modesty and unselfishness: These are the virtues which men praise, and pass by | André Maurois (1885-1967) |
| Self is ingenious, crooked, and, governed by subtle and snaky desire, admits of endless turnings and qualifications, and the deluded worshippers of self vainly imagine that they can gratify every worldly desire, and at the same time possess the Truth | James Allen (1864-1942) |
| When men, lost in the devious ways of error and self, have forgotten the "heavenly birth," ... they set up artificial standards by which to judge one another | James Allen (1864-1942) |
| Well, I know they've always told you/Selfishness was wrong/Yet it was for me, not you, I came to write this song/ | Neil Peart (1952-) |
| Live for yourself -- there's no one elseMore worth living forBegging hands and bleeding hearts will only cry out for more | Neil Peart (1952-) |
| All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| If you're working to make the playing field fair and level, you're working for the wrong reasons. Work to take the opportunities that arise and use your individual talents to excel at those opportunities. | Rush Limbaugh (1951-) |
| All endeavors which are directed to a purely worldly end, contain within themselves the seeds of their own corruption. | Theodore H. White (1915-1986) |