Selfishness

The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive regard to one's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or self-preference which leads a person to direct his purposes to the advancement of his own interest, power, or happiness, without regarding those of others.

Selfishness, -- a vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.

Syn. -- See Self-love.

noun

Concern only for oneself: egocentricity, egocentrism, egoism, egomania, self-absorption, self-centeredness, self-involvement. See self/other.

The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and a disregard of others
  Antonym: unselfishness (meaning #1)

Quotes:

"Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself." - Henry Ward Beecher

"Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust, just as the embryo rests deep within the womb, wisdom is hidden by selfish desire." - Bhagavad Gita

"Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself." - Julio Cortazar

"The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation." - Hailliard

"Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love." - Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it." - Doug Horton

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