Aggressive Quote by Greg Bear

The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.

— Max Beerbohm

All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

At the core, our motives are always self-serving, Kate. Altruism is a fog created by sly minds seeking to benefit from the energy and…

— Ilona Andrews

It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.

— Richard Dawkins

Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.

— Christina Stead

Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped.

— David Rakoff

The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister…

— Emile Souvestre

“When the first force, social feeling and community expectation, is ignored or affronted, the person concerned will reveal certain aggressive character traits: vanity, ambition,…

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

Even cynical, selfish people will realize, one way or the other, that it's not in their self-interest to act in self-destructive ways.

— David Grinspoon

Every action that we take has some motivation of either being selfish or altruistic. All that adds up.

— Adam Yauch

Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive

— Samuel Johnson

“There is even in the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that we call extreme self-seeking is…

— Eric Hoffer