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Charles Dickens Selfishness Quotes

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In this timeless novella, Charles Dickens conveys the idea that selfishness, in its’ “righteous” form, is an integral part of fulfilling one’s social responsibility to look out for one’s fellow man. It could be argued that no action is without some level of selfishness. Thus, throughout the novella, fulfilling one’s social responsibility becomes a matter of making the positive benefits of one’s actions outweigh the inherent selfishness of those acts, an apt definition of “righteous” selfishness. For example, in Stave lV, the reader follows Scrooge as he learns about the ubiquitous lack of care and thought that is present in the aftermath of the death of a man, a man he does not yet know to be himself. Before this point, Scrooge’s heart has
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