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Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.
Alveda King
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
Helen Keller
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.
Rick Danko
Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.
Douglas Horton
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
Woodrow Wilson
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
Honore De Balzac
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
Napoleon Hill
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.
Alice James
Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.
Elihu Root
I was surprised by how much I like being a father; surprised at what a decent father I am, because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to dump my selfishness.
Michael Zaslow
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
Cesare Pavese
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.
Edgar Watson Howe
Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
Henry Ward Beecher
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.
John Comenius
Let us reject violence and selfishness which could destroy our country's unity.
Mwai Kibaki
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
Lao Tzu
Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
Madame de Stael
My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful.
Hattie McDaniel
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