Quotes about selfishness
selfishness naked world
If you seek in the spirit of selfishness, to grasp all as your own, you shall lose all, and be driven out of the world, at last, naked and forlorn, to everlasting poverty and contempt. Jonathan Edwards
selfishness twins twin-sister
Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness. Percy Bysshe Shelley
selfishness gains facts
The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively an individual affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness. There is no obvious social motive for the acquirement of mere learning, there is no clear social gain in success thereat. John Dewey
selfishness results humans
Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself. Julio Cortazar
selfishness world would-be
Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with. Josh Billings
selfishness redemption littles
There is little hope of the repentance and redemption of certain some until they have committed one or another of the many wrong things of which they are daily, through a course of unrestrained selfishness, becoming more and more capable. George MacDonald
selfishness messages want
One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. Susan Sontag
selfishness disguise inspection
It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise. Richard Dawkins
selfishness would-be sitting
A gene might be able to assist replicas of itself that are sitting in other bodies. If so, this would appear as individual altruism but it would be brought about by gene selfishness.
selfishness desert fool
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life. Stendhal
selfishness suffrage meanness
We can neither change nor overpower God's eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness. James Martineau
selfishness care mental-health
It's almost selfishness, taking care of your mental health. You can't just not do it. Roz Chast
selfishness defense libertarian
Economics is sometimes associated with the study and defense of selfishness and material inequality, but it has an egalitarian and civil libertarian core that should be celebrated. Tyler Cowen
selfishness atheism baseness
Atheism exists only in coldness, selfishness, and baseness. Madame de Stael
selfishness social social-good
No universal selfishness can bring social good to all, W. E. B. Du Bois
selfishness causes world
Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides. Walter Scott
selfishness agents confidential
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness. Woodrow Wilson