Quotes of: Selfishness Keyword

Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.

Elizabeth Gilbert

One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one’s own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns and derives from love.

The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to...

The Selfish Gene

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

The Portable Emerson

Love is what freed me from the cell of my selfishness.

Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person's Guide to Being Selfless

We found evolution will punish you if you're selfish and mean. For a short time and against a specific set of opponents, some selfish organisms may come out ahead. But selfishness isn't evolutionarily sustainable.

Chris Adami

I know I'm not a selfish player. People around me know I'm not a selfish player. I do everything I can to make people around me understand I'm not a selfish player.

Carmelo Anthony

We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.

The Selfish Gene

A selfish man is a thief.

Jose Marti

Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.

Leigh Hunt

No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

Henry Ward Beecher

Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing.

Herbie Mann

The abortionist I worked for, he's a very greedy man, a selfish man.

Norma McCorvey

...capitalism satisfied the Christian demand for an institution that channels selfish human desire toward the betterment of society. Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human n...

What's So Great About Christianity

Chance" is just a word expressing ignorance

The Selfish Gene

But if I decide to decide there’s a different, less selfish, less lonely point to my life, won’t the reason for this decision be my desire to be less lonely, meaning to suffer less overall pain? Can the decision to be less selfish ever be anythin...

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.

The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Selfish people tend to only be good to themselves... then are surprised when they are alone.

Steve Maraboli

What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

Herbert Spencer

If believing in yourself and going after what you want in life and realising your worth is ruthless and selfish, then I'm definitely ruthless and selfish.

Nicole Scherzinger

I gave too much to people.... So much selfish people in life.

Victoria Bando