Selfish

Famous quotes containing the word selfish:

“[F]rom Saratoga [N.Y.] till we got back to Northampton [Mass.], was then mostly desert. Now it is what 34. years of free and good government have made it. It shews how soon the labor of man would make a paradise of the whole earth, were it not for misgovernment, and a diversion of all his energies from their proper object, the happiness of man, to the selfish interests of kings, nobles and priests.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

“Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Oh, no one can deny
That Arnold is less selfish than I.
He married a woman to stop her getting away
Now she’s there all day.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)