Children Quote by Margaret Atwood

Human beings are selfish by nature. Everything that happens to a child, you immediately grab your own child and say, "I will never let…

— John Darnielle

Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Selfishness reigns in our society. Men and women today look out for themselves to the neglect and hurt of those around them.

— John Bevere

In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people.

— Clay Aiken

Unless taught otherwise, children are the most selfish, oblivious little Philistines on the planet. They have no family, no job, no responsibilities, and nothing…

— Steven Crowder

“Children can be very early taught...that they can hereafter find their chief happiness in giving up their will to God, and in living to…

— Beecher, Catharine E. (Catharine Esther

All children are born pure egoists. They perceive their needs to the exclusion of all others. Only through socialization do they learn that some…

— Andrew Vachss

Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.

— Richard Paul Evans

“a good deal of unkindness and selfishness on the part of parents towards children is not generally followed by ill consequences to the parents…

— Samuel Butler

Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.

— George Eliot

“Unfortunately, it's not until you've had children that you discover how selfish you actually are. That's one of the paradoxical aspects of becoming a…

— Mark Cleary

One of the most painful things in the Western States and Territories is the extinction of childhood. I have never seen any children -…

— Isabella Bird