Quotes About Selfishness

My cares come from a very selfish place 'cause in reality I'm young, and I haven't had the experience to be mature yet.

Celebrations have now become too selfish and I don't like it. When I used to score I was happy to celebrate with my team-mates. Now when players score it is all about them.

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

I don't like it when bands don't want to play that one song everybody wants to hear. I think that's cheating everybody, and I think it's selfish of an artist to do that.

My kids don't like chocolate. My husband doesn't like chocolate, so I get it all to myself.

Despite advances achieved through objective scientific investigation, and the breaking down of long-standing fears and superstitions, the world is still not a reasonable place. Many attempts to make it so have failed because of selfish individual and national interests.

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

Bizarrely, I've been called selfish for not having children. Surely it's more selfish to have a child when you don't really want a child?

He says he can't understand these people. "People who sail through life like the world owes them a living.

Do the two girls run around together? I think not. I think they go their separate and slightly divergent roads to perdition. Vivian is spoiled, exacting, smart and quite ruthless. Carmen is a child who likes to pull wings off flies. Neither of them has any more moral sense than

There's a direct association between machismo and the refusal to recognize and respond appropriately to the climate catastrophe. It's a result of versions of masculinity in which selfishness and indifference – individualism taken to its extremes – are defining characteristics, and therefore caring and acting for the collective good is their antithesis.

and if the stepmother was irredeemable, it's because she's all of us: insatiable, craving and its underbelly, selfishness incarnate. She's who we all are when we feel poor amid plenty.

Je to sice náÅ¡ velitel, ale není to v?dce. Scott je egoista.

ACCORDING TO THE Latin root of the word, 'religion' would mean 'to bind again'. Now how does the concept of binding or tying up come to be applied as the common term for all our various teachings? The common enemy of all religious disciplines, the target of all moral precepts laid down by the great teachers of mankind, is selfishness of mind. For it is just this which causes ignorance, anger and passion which are at the root of all the troubles of the world.

Anybody who's ever mattered, anybody who's ever been happy, anybody who's ever given any gift into the world has been a divinely selfish soul, living for his own best interest. No exceptions.

Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.

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

We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.* 12

We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

My purpose is to examine the biology of selfishness and altruism.

Since we humans do not want to return to the old selfish ways where we let the children of too-large families starve to death, we have abolished the family as a unit of economic self-sufficiency, and substituted the state.

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.

An ESS is stable, not because it is particularly good for the individuals participating in it, but simply because it is immune to treachery from within.