„Madam, the commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.“

— Robert A. Heinlein

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„Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.“
— William Wilberforce
„How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!“
— John Muir
„Because the god who created this universe, if it was created by a god, is quite clearly a maniac, an utter maniac, totally selfish. We have to spend our life on our knees thanking him? What kind of god would do that?“
— Stephen Fry