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Selfishness Quotes by David Mitchell
- People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this…
- Why fight the 'natural' (oh, weaselly word!) order of things? Why? Because of this--one fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume itself. In an…
- In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.
More Selfishness Quotes
- The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that… — Cyrano de Bergerac
- It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers.… — Carol Burnett
- Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness… — Thomas Merton
- We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed. — Madeleine M. Kunin
- I myself feel, and also tell other Buddhists that the question of Nirvana will come later. There is not much hurry. If… — Dalai Lama
- Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. — Jane Austen
- I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. — Jane Austen
- Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. — Richard Bach