Quote by Karl Polanyi

“The mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.”

— Emily Brontë

“Liberalism within ourselves is always the enemy.”

— Jonathan Bowden

“Never ascribe to irrational benevolence what selfishness will explain.”

— Yoon Ha Lee

“If he had a reason for preferring Liberalism to the Conservatism of many in his set, it was not that he considered Liberalism more…

— Leo Tolstoy

“A liberal is a noble and indispensable lunatic who tries to make a cosmos of his own head.”

— Gilbert Keith Chesterton

“Life, liberty and the pursuit of gratitude, now that would’ve worked. They would have been readily led to contentment, which would’ve then better lead…

— Geoffrey Wood

“Your best chance of survival was to be utterly selfish.”

— Laura Spinney

“That is the other side of selflessness: its tyranny.”

— Margaret Atwood

“Supporting selfish people is a waste of time and energy! They will always find an excuse to blame you for their own mistakes!”

— Lily Amis

“The terrible thing that the Party had done was to persuade you that mere impulses, mere feelings, were of no account, while at the…

— George Orwell

“It's an absurd request. Our minds, unedited by guilt or shame, are selfish and unkind, and the majority of our thoughts, at any given…

— Jonathan Tropper

“It is, after all, a simple and tragic thing that on occasion our unkindness to others is actually a desperate effort to be kind…

— Tahereh Mafi