Quotes of: Selfishness Keyword

In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.

Cloud Atlas

Being selfish only benefits a few. Considering others benefits all of mankind.

Terraine Francois

I don't know if it's ever OK for someone to be selfish. Perhaps there's a time and place to be self-centered, but I think selfish never wins the race.

Jessica Capshaw

You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know. You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me, and still come with me, and hating me through death an...

Carmilla

Of all the vices which degrade the human character, Selfishness is the most odious and contemptible. An undue love of Self leads to the most mon¬strous crimes and occasions the greatest misfortunes both in States and Families. As a selfish man will ...

William Makepeace Thackeray

Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes.

The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

Being self-sufficient is not selfish; it is a need. Harming others or yourself is not selfish because it will never benefit the self; it is just stupid.

Life

Marriage is just an elaborate game that allows two selfish people to periodically feel that they're not.

Couplehood

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

The Selfish Gene

The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness.

The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.

The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.

E. O. Wilson

Men's moral principles are weak enough without their being made subordinate to selfishness; and their selfishness is quite active enough, without any such effort as Christianity makes to constitute it the mainspring of all their conduct.

Lysander Spooner

Selfishness from earth to hereafter: Thy pray and struggle, same by thee. Because life committed selfishness in living with the Democracy.

Life

Parents raise children then grow old, and their children forget the things their old parents did for them, because their brains don’t remember before they grew selfish. There are buildings all over the world full of old people sitting around lookin...

How to Hide from Humans

I was an abusive, selfish, needy, angry asshole. Now I'm just kind of selfish, a little less angry, occasionally needy, with flights of asshole. I've grown.

Attempting Normal

What shall it profit a male if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his immortal genes?

The Selfish Gene

God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.

Shadowlands

Romantic love is the most selfish of all emotions.

Selfish Path to Romance: How to Love With Passion & Reason, Inspired by Ayn Rand

When unlimited and unrestricted by individual rights a government is men's deadliest enemy.

The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

We can achieve the fullest measure of life by living it for others.

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