Selfish

Famous quotes containing the word selfish:

“A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

“Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“O! if those selfish men—who are the cause of all one’s misery, only knew what their poor slaves go through! What suffering—what humiliation to the delicate feelings of a poor woman, above all a young one—especially with those nasty doctors.”
—Victoria (1819–1901)