Altruism Quote by Carl Sagan

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.

— Albert Einstein

Of all the lessons history teaches, this one is the plainest: the person who tries to achieve ends through force is always unscrupulous and…

— 1st Baron Percy of Newcastle Eustace Percy

As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to…

— Lafcadio Hearn

Human nature is pretty well balanced; for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch--as cunning is the…

— Ambrose Bierce

There's a misconception that survival of the fittest means survival of the most aggressive. The adjective 'Darwinian' used to refer to ruthless competition; you…

— Steven Pinker

The insatiable need for heartless power and ruthless control is the telltale sign of an uninitiated man - the most irresponsible, incompetent and destructive…

— Michael Leunig

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

To be ruthless requires belief that our life on earth is but a brief prelude to an afterlife, or a temporary sacrifice before some…

— Eric Hoffer

“We generally describe the most repulsive examples of humanity's cruelty as brutal or bestial, implying by these adjectives that such behaviour is characteristic of…

— Storr

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.

— Mary Douglas

“Because they are naturally ferocious, and ferocity, like maliciousness, begets suspicion; a remark which is true of man as well as of animals. A…

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