Selfishness is the root of all human evil. Reston

All smart people are selfish. Selfish quotes by American writer Emerson

It is not enough to benefit the world by plucking a hair.

Warring States Period·Meng Ke's "Mencius: Devotion to the Heart". The general meaning of the two sentences is: plucking a hair is beneficial to the whole world, so don't do it. Here Mencius uses an exaggerated technique to criticize Yang Zhu's "for me" philosophy, which can be quoted today to satirize those particularly narrow-minded, selfish, and stingy egoists.

Meng Ke, a thinker, educator, and representative figure of Confucianism during the Warring States Period. Mencius "Mencius: Devotion to the Heart"

Calm, courageous, discerning, and unselfish. Chinese modern writer and political commentator Lu Xun

People who live only for themselves are insignificant. Montaigne, a late French Renaissance thinker

Behind one point of kindness, nine points of selfishness are hidden.

British educator Herbert Spencer