Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anton LaVey

Satanism represents a form of controlled selfishness.

Richard Dawkins

What you cannot have is a gene that sacrifices itself for the benefit of other genes. What you can have is a gene that makes organisms sacrifice themselves for other organisms under the influence of selfish genes.

Richard Dawkins

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 do.

Richard Dawkins

It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.

Richard Dawkins

If the universe were just electrons and selfish genes, meaningless tragedies ... are exactly what we should expect, along with equally meaningless good fortune. Such a universe would be neither evil nor good in intention ... The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

Richard Dawkins

We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

Richard Dawkins

Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation forthe existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind's eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of the watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.

Roz Chast

It's almost selfishness, taking care of your mental health. You can't just not do it.

Rose Macaulay

How far does one combine resistance to over-control with social justice, i.e. tolerable living for people in general? We are too selfish to be trusted, if left free, to give away enough to make people comfortable enough to give them a chance. Yet if all this is ordered for us, as to some extent it has to be, it so soon leads to tyranny. It is a very difficult problem. If only human beings had more pity, unselfishness, and justice and didn't need coercion to treat each other decently.

Wayne Dyer

It is better to be kind than right.

Alan Cohen

Be kind to everyone, and don't leave yourself out of the equation.

Margaret Atwood

The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.

Caitlin Moran

The world is difficult and we are all breakable. So just be kind.

Richard G. Scott

It doesn't do any good to argue. Be kind.

Abu Bakr

He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.

Dr. Seuss

For a host, above all, must be kind to his guests.

Dalai Lama

I'd rather be kind than right. You can always be kind.

Dolly Parton

We're supposed to be less judgmental and accept and be kind and love one another.

Rose McGowan

I really prize my freedom more than work. I prize just being human and doing other things.

Kevin Spacey

It's not even about being negative. It's just being unsettled, unsatisfied, unfinished.

James Belushi

Celebrities in general are pretty democratic, just being in the theater. Plus, I'm from Chicago. But Obama's sensible... he's just a reasonable, sensible human being.

Kate Braverman

Just being in a room with myself is almost more stimulation than I can bear.

Kim Gordon

If you don't fit into a certain type, there's a lot of strength in just being who you are.

Mary McDonnell

We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.

Taylor Swift

Just being a human being, I’ve realized that before every big problem you create for yourself, before every huge mess you have to clean up, there was a crucial moment where you could’ve just said no.

Charlize Theron

You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman.

Charles M. Blow

I know that life, I've done all those things, and I can still tell you that just being you is perfectly fine.