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title: "22 Selfish Quotes By Richard Dawkins"
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> [Human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/human-vanity-cherishes-the-absurd-notion-that-our-species-is-the/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [I don't actually think 'The Selfish Gene' is a very good title. I think that's one of my worst titles.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/i-don-t-actually-think-the-selfish-gene-is-a-very-good-title-i-think/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/we-alone-on-earth-can-rebel-against-the-tyranny-of-the-selfish/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [“even with selfish genes at the helm, nice guys can finish first.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/even-with-selfish-genes-at-the-helm-nice-guys-can-finish-first/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/let-us-understand-what-our-own-selfish-genes-are-up-to-because-we-may/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [Selfish genes actually explain altruistic individuals, and to me that's crystal-clear.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/selfish-genes-actually-explain-altruistic-individuals-and-to-me-that/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/mutation-is-random-natural-selection-is-the-very-opposite-of-random/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/let-us-try-to-teach-generosity-and-altruism-because-we-are-born/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [I've always been antagonistic to any naïve application of the selfish gene theory to politics. Some people have attempted to suggest that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/i-ve-always-been-antagonistic-to-any-na-ve-application-of-the-selfish/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/let-us-try-to-teach-generosity-and-altruism-because-we-are-born-2/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [Be warned that if you wish, as I do, to build a society in which individuals cooperate generously and unselfishly towards a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/be-warned-that-if-you-wish-as-i-do-to-build-a-society-in-which/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/we-are-survival-machines-robot-vehicles-blindly-programmed-to/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [What you cannot have is a gene that sacrifices itself for the benefit of other genes. What you can have is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/what-you-cannot-have-is-a-gene-that-sacrifices-itself-for-the-benefit/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [People who criticize The Selfish Gene like that often haven't read it. The selfish gene accounts for altruism toward kin and individuals…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/people-who-criticize-the-selfish-gene-like-that-often-haven-t-read-it/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/we-are-built-as-gene-machines-and-cultured-as-meme-machines-but-we/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [If the universe were just electrons and selfish genes, meaningless tragedies ... are exactly what we should expect, along with equally meaningless…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/if-the-universe-were-just-electrons-and-selfish-genes-meaningless/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [In the original introduction to the word meme in the last chapter of 'The Selfish Gene,' I did actually use the metaphor…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/in-the-original-introduction-to-the-word-meme-in-the-last-chapter-of/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation forthe existence and apparently…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/natural-selection-the-blind-unconscious-automatic-process-which/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [We have the power to defy the selfish genes of our birth and, if necessary, the selfish memes of our indoctrination. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/we-have-the-power-to-defy-the-selfish-genes-of-our-birth-and-if/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [Scientific and technological progress themselves are value-neutral. They are just very good at doing what they do. If you want to do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/scientific-and-technological-progress-themselves-are-value-neutral/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [ “A foreign publisher of my first book \[ The Selfish Gene \] confessed that he could not sleep for three nights after… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/a-foreign-publisher-of-my-first-book-the-selfish-gene-confessed-that/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/any-altruistic-system-is-inherently-unstable-because-it-is-open-to/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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## Other authors on Selfish

## More by Richard Dawkins

> [At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/at-the-deepest-level-all-living-things-that-have-ever-been-looked-at/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

> [The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/the-word-mundane-has-come-to-mean-boring-and-dull-and-it-really/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

> [We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/we-animals-are-the-most-complicated-things-in-the-known-universe/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

> [“The fundamentalist Kurt Wise proclaims that all the evidence in the universe would not change his mind. The true scientist, however passionately he may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/the-fundamentalist-kurt-wise-proclaims-that-all-the-evidence-in-the/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

> [“I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/i-have-found-it-an-amusing-strategy-when-asked-whether-i-am-an/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

> [Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/religions-do-make-claims-about-the-universe-the-same-kinds-of-claims/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

> [“much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/much-of-the-bible-is-not-systematically-evil-but-just-plain-weird-as/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

> [The recurrent laryngeal nerve - which runs from the head to the voice box - goes all the way down into the chest, loops…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/the-recurrent-laryngeal-nerve-which-runs-from-the-head-to-the-voice/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

> [The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase "ill-gotten" might have been specially invented. And of all its money-making rip-offs,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/the-roman-catholic-church-is-an-institution-for-whose-gains-the/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

> [Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/let-us-understand-what-our-own-selfish-genes-are-up-to-because-we-may/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

> [What's going to happen when I die? I may be buried, or I may be cremated, I may give my body to science. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/what-s-going-to-happen-when-i-die-i-may-be-buried-or-i-may-be/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

> [Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some answers, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/or-why-it-is-acceptable-to-train-fast-runners-and-high-jumpers-but/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

> [We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/we-have-seen-that-living-things-are-too-improbable-and-too/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

> [“We will not go quietly away. If in the future that requires violence”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/we-will-not-go-quietly-away-if-in-the-future-that-requires-violence/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

> [It's a truly disgusting idea that the creator of the universe - capable of inventing the laws of physics and designing the evolutionary process…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/it-s-a-truly-disgusting-idea-that-the-creator-of-the-universe-capable/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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