selfishness

It is not reputation, fame, success or religiosity that glorifies God, it's slavery.

Kingdom of God will surely come upon someone if glory of man leaves him

Beware ! Discipline goes to two different directions : success and self glory. Self glory is the biggest failure of life.

Sacrifice of the self is sheer stupidity if sacrifice is not for the self.

Only the foolish would think that wisdom is something to keep locked in a drawer. Only the fearful would feel empowerment is something best kept to oneself, or the few, and not shared with all.

As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.

I have freedom. But freedom means total selfishness. It means nobody cares much what you do.

At the root of every form of ungodliness, injustice, nepotism, selfishness, every rivalry and competitive jealousy, is the monster called greed.

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

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.

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.

If one does not make an ego out of gender, one would still know whether one is a man or a woman, gay, straight, bisexual, transgender__hatever else we may think of. But those identities need to fit very loosely and be worn very lightly. All sense of privilege or deprivation that has developed around one__ gender identity, all rigidity regarding proper roles and behaviors for the various genders, must be cut through.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all, more stupid.

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go and become a philanthropist.' I said, 'No, I can do that in the business world, create a different kind of business - a business based on selflessness.'

Selfishness is the only real atheism aspiration unselfishness the only real religion.

That man who lives for self alone Lives for the meanest mortal known.