Humans Are Selfish Quotes

#1. Remember that a wish held fervently turns into belief, and a belief held diligently becomes reality.

Jim Stovall

#2. It is the liberal philosophy, not the conservative one, that views humans as selfish automatons.

Allen West

#3. You proudly said. We are Humans! In reality, we are a bunch of sarcastic, selfish and stupid well-intentioned creatures without any remorse for anything. So, think again about your pride and become, at least, more humble.

J.B.Alves

#4. Although, by todays standards, he set a vast amount of work, he believed as he told Mrs Ashley, that 'If you pour much drink into a goblet, the most part will dash out and run over'. In Ascham's view, it was the carrot, and not the stick, that worked.

Alison Weir

#5. Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#6. There are two types of humans in this world: those who function so they can get something and those who function so they can give something.

Sarah Noffke

#7. Are you okay?" Aiden asked Deacon. He nodded slowly. "Yeah, I'm great. Nothing like witnessing a death match between gods when I'm trying to get some Cheetos." My

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#8. Man is an extremely complex creature: he usually acts in an unselfish manner for selfish reasons.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#9. It makes me feel the way I need to feel.

Snoop Dogg

#10. But the bottom line is that, as humans, we are by nature selfish creatures. The only way we care about anything, really, is by making it about us.

Sarah Dessen

#11. Humans. Violent but peace-loving. Passionate but cerebral. Humane but cruel. Impulsive but calculating. Generous but selfish. Humans. Altogether a contradictory and deeply flawed species. And yet ... And yet, somehow I knew that they represented the best hope of the galaxy. Perhaps the only hope.

Katherine Applegate

#12. Its hard to say i'm not going to do it, if you have already done it before

K.C Tshwaane

#13. I now know that deep within the human concept is something dark, selfish, and completely willing to do whatever is necessary to support the idea of humanity. Because that's what it is, an idea. True humanity would never behave as we have behaved.

Melissa West

#14. Callous is something that hardening leaves behind what will be soft if there is a genuine interest in there being present as many girls as men. Does this change. It shows that dirt is clean when there is a volume.

Gertrude Stein

#15. In short, killing the goose that lays the golden egg is a viable political strategy, so long as the goose does not die before the next election and no one traces the politicians' fingerprints on the murder weapon.

Thomas Sowell

#16. 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

#17. Human beings are selfish by nature. Everything that happens to a child, you immediately grab your own child and say, "I will never let that happen to you."

John Darnielle

#18. Turn on the dream you lived
through the unwavering gaze.
It is as you thought: the living burn.
In the floating days
may you discover grace.

Galway Kinnell

#19. Do me a favor,
Smile

Me

#20. All of the things that the bible warns you of being: jealous, covetous, murderous, selfish, etc., that's kind of how humans are.

Henry Rollins

#21. All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form.

Robin Morgan

#22. Humans are the killers of magic, you see.....People can be cruel, unkind, mean, selfish. We can be a great many dreadful thing, and at one time or another we are all guilty of bad behavior. What we fail to realize is that we are the only ones who can do such things.

Patrick Carman

#23. Human beings are more or less formulas. Pun intended. We are not any one thing that is mathematically provable. We are more or less than we are anything. We are more or less kind, or more or less not. More or less selfish, happy, wise, lonely.

Adi Alsaid

#24. If you are not in the state of either acceptance, enjoyment, or enthusiasm, look closely and you will find that you are creating suffering for yourself and others.

Eckhart Tolle

#25. I'm too poor to afford the luxury of hysteria right now.

Tahereh Mafi

#26. Humans, the most intelligent, gregarious(in biology), productive creatures on this planet but also the most selfish, destructive, heartless, insincere, insatiable creatures.

Myself

#27. Pain makes humans selfish. Blocked off. Focused inward instead of outward.

Tarryn Fisher

#28. Basically, my vagina was a metaphor for my empty heart and it needed to be filled before I decided that my stomach was also a metaphor and I ate my way through this whole situation.

Britt Hayes