Selfish Human Nature Quotes

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

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#2. The odds of surviving are not good for serfs, or clerics, since they tended the sick, but miraculously I survive. Mr. Erikson rewards me with a laminated badge that reads, I SURVIVED THE BLACK PLAGUE.
Mom will be so proud.

Cynthia Hand

#3. We have got to make sure that every qualified American in this country who wants to go to college can go to college
regardless of income.

Bernie Sanders

#4. 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

#5. My own feeling on the consumer is that he - he or she looks at what it costs them to pay their bills every month as opposed to how much debt they have.

Kenneth Langone

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

Eleanor Catton

#7. Radio stations play what they believe is in, and they all talk to each other.

Nikki Sixx

#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. 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

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#12. This is not only a full moon for me. This is an image of your face for me.

Gaurav GRV Sharma

#13. Isn't making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool?

George Carlin

#14. Traffic was as much an emotional problem as it was a mechanical one.

Tom Vanderbilt

#15. 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

#16. All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.

Sam Houston

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

James Madison

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Andy Weir

#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. 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

#23. Save your world. Love it,protect it, respect it, and don't let the haters represent it.

James Patterson

#24. She could no longer borrow from the future to ease her present grief.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#25. 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

#26. Like other antitrust agencies we make our assessment of a merger or antitrust case based on its impact on our jurisdiction, and not on the nationality of the companies. This is exactly what the U.S. antitrust agencies, the Justice Department and the FTC, do.

Mario Monti

#27. In tantra we don't believe in commandments. We believe in the moment and the truth that is applicable for that moment, as best we can sort it out with our heart, our intuition, our knowledge, our common sense.

Frederick Lenz

#28. Quinn, a little heads up next time would be awesome. You know, just a little text message saying, 'Oh, by the way, when you get home, there will be two way too hot for human kind identical freaking twins, living right next door.' Something like that, no big deal.

Kimberly Lauren

#29. I am on the cusp of change and the curve is shifting fast.

Audre Lorde