I don't think there's any need to have essays advocating selfishness among human beings; I don't know what your impression has been, but some things require no further reinforcement.
The Holy Spirit is the immediate source of all holiness. He is entirely sincere, and perfect in love. He is generous. He is pure in heart, free from selfishness, and never swerves from the path of duty. He is deep like a fountain. He sends forth his virtues in due season. He speaks, and men believe him; he acts, and men are gladdened by him. He possesses all heavenly virtues. He is one with Heaven.
The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.
Selfishness alone is sufficient to bring apocalypse upon a nation.
Selfishness and self-absorption are deadly charm-exterminators.
Judeo-Christian conservatism overcomes natural selfishness.
I don't think the revisionist historians are accurate. I think their agendas are clouded by selfishness and anger and rage.
If you could leave your selfishness, you would see how you've been torturing your soul.
Why fight the 'natural' (oh, weaselly word!) order of things? Why? Because of this--one fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume itself. In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.
Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
The Lord supplies our needs, but not our selfishness
Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or both parties to a marriage contract.
The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.
And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness.
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.
Every time we give in to selfishness and say “No” to God, we spoil his loving plan for us.
My best quality is that I'm a big hearted person. I'm resilient, too. My worst quality is selfishness, although everyone is guilty of that to an extent. Everyone should be, I think - you need to respect yourself.
Not forgiving prolongs hurt and anger and leads to smoldering resentment, which will make us miserable until it kills us. Resentment destroys the perception of reality. As we try to bend the world to accommodate our resentment, fear, and selfishness, we become less accurate in understanding the world. This eventually destroys our ability to cope successfully with life.
Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.