Henry Ward Beecher Selfish Quotations

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.

Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war, utterly shattered.

When leisure is a selfish luxury, its very activity, when it stirs, is apt to be only a kind of indolence taking exercise, that it may the better digest its selfishness.