Altruism Quote by Adam Smith

“How selfish soever man may be supposed,” Smith wrote, “there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of…

— Steven D. Levitt

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

— James Madison

The really great man is often considered selfish by a large group of people who are connected with him and who feel that he…

— Wallace D. Wattles

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.

— Duke Ellington

The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.

— J. C. Ryle

Selfishness keeps man blind through life.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

The all wise Creator of man imprest certain laws on his nature. A desire of happiness, and of society, are two of those laws.…

— John Dickinson

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting…

— Oscar Wilde

Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.

— John Owen

“A permanent possibility of selfishness arises from the mere fact of having a self, and not from any accidents of education or ill-treatment. And…

— G.K. Chesterton

Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our…

— William Wilberforce