Quotes About Human Nature Selfish

#1. Yet, there is a sense of some deep sort that runs entirely contrary to human nature; that in putting ourselves first, we must by necessity put others first.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#2. I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful.

Michael Shermer

#3. Part of what makes me love acting so much is, I love the mystery of the universe and the human experience, and storytelling is a great way to perform that, and that is always inspiring to me.

Mariana Klaveno

#4. Suffering, he thought later, could rob a man of his empathy, could turn him selfish, could make him depreciate all other sufferers.

Eleanor Catton

#5. One grows up thinking you will naturally be able to have children, and when it doesn't happen, it's a shock. But I just feel that it wasn't meant to be.

Pattie Boyd

#6. I'd rather have 100,000 people who really get what I'm doing and like it for what it is than a million who can take it or leave it.

Kacey Musgraves

#7. It is well known that involuntary migrants, no matter what pot they are thrown into, tend not to melt.

Anne Fadiman

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

Reinhold Niebuhr

#9. War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.

Immanuel Kant

#10. There are alternate explanations for everything.

James Cook

#11. I agree with Rand that human nature is selfish, that we should help ourselves first and foremost ... Where I differ with her is that I think we can and should help ourselves and others at the same time as a conscious goal.

Robert Peate

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#13. Life delivered me a catastrophe, but I found a richness of soul.

Michael J. Fox

#14. Oh, yeah?" Seth says, growing angry. "How did you die again? Freak accident falling down the stairs?

Patrick Ness

#15. You are all great, and everything about your company is wonderful!

Carlos Newton

#16. 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

#17. The unity of Nigeria will only come if we overcome and overgrow tribe, materialism and selfish human nature.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#18. Man is known to be a selfish, as well as a social being.

James Madison

#19. If you question whether abortion should be seen as different from removing a tumor, then you must hate women.

Greg Gutfeld

#20. It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature.

John Von Neumann

#21. Human nature was such that individuals could respond to reason, to the call of justice, and even to the love perfection of the religious spirit, but nations, corporations, labor unions, and other large social groups would always be selfish.

Taylor Branch

#22. My heart goes out to anyone who is making his first appearance before an audience of human beings.

Mark Twain

#23. Man is a rebel, and a rebel is naturally in confusion. He is in conflict with every other rebel. For a rebel by his very nature is selfish. He is seeking his own good and not the good of others.

Billy Graham

#24. Capitalism satisfied the Christian demand for an institution that channels selfish human desire toward the betterment of society. Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.

Dinesh D'Souza

#25. I do most of my shopping online. It's just convenient for me.

Lauren Conrad