Quotes of: Selfishness Keyword

A right doesn't include the material implementation of that right by other men; it includes only the freedom to earn that implementation by one's own effort.

The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

Like small seeds, small deeds can make a big difference.

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

When we're constantly thinking about ourselves, our world shrinks.

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

Abundance in life is achieved only when we tear down walls and fill our lives with light.

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

Science is a victim of its own reductive metaphors: 'Big Bang,' 'selfish gene' and so on. Richard Dawkins' selfish gene fitted with the Thatcherite politics of the time. It should actually be the 'altruistic gene,' but he'd never have sold as many bo...

Charles Jencks

The question of whether one alleges the Superiority or Inferiority of any given race is irrelevant; racism has only one psychological root: the racist's sense of his own Inferiority.

The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

I have two ways of loving You: A selfish one And another way that is worthy of You. In my selfish love, I remember You and You alone. In that other love, You lift the veil And let me feast my eyes on Your living face.

Rabia Al-Adawiyya

There is nothing wrong in being selfish provided you know where your self interest are. Once you start meditating regularly you will come to a stage where you will realize that selfish action are those which brings peace and welfare to all and not on...

Subodh Gupta

I'm not selfish at all.

Judy Gold

Human beings appear to be sufficiently selfish and calculating to be capable of indefinitely greater harmony and social homeostasis. This statement is not self-contradictory. True selfishness, if obedient to the other constraints of mammalian biology...

On Human Nature

All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live.

Letters of Swami Vivekananda

I have learned that I always feel happier and healthier when I offer genuine love to other people.

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

When somebody's calling you 'Mommy,' it's a wonderful thing. But also to have that responsibility and to know that you and your partner have this little thing that's totally relying on you - and it made me, I suppose, less selfish. Not that I was meg...

Phyllis Logan

My life, in some ways, has been a half-measure. I didn't commit myself all the way to my marriage and family, because I would have given up more. And I didn't go all the way with just being completely selfish. I always wonder where my career would be...

Alec Baldwin

Men tend to be selfish.

Caprice Bourret

Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use. The mere presence in the dictionary of a word like 'living' does not mean it necessarily has to refer to something definite in the real world.

The Selfish Gene

Presumably there is indeed no purpose in the ultimate fate of the cosmos, but do any of us really tie our life's hopes to the ultimate fate of the cosmos anyway? Of course we don't; not if we are sane. Our lives are ruled by all sorts of closer, warm...

The Selfish Gene

It's an absurd request. Our minds, unedited by guilt or shame, are selfish and unkind, and the majority of our thoughts, at any given time, are not for public consumption, because they would either be hurtful or else just make us look like the selfis...

This is Where I Leave You

There is no such thing as "the right to enslave".A nation can do it , just as a man can become a criminal - but neither can do it by right. It doesn't matter in this context, whether a nation was enslaved by force (like soviet Russia), or by vote (li...

The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

You have to be selfish to be an actor.

Charles Dance

It does not seem ever to have been satisfactorily answered why the two first operational atomic bombs were used — against the strongly voiced wishes of the leading physicists responsible for developing them — to destroy two cities instead of bein...

The Selfish Gene