Behavior Quote by Nicholas Kristof

It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and…

— Robert Greene

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

— Adam Yauch

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

— Richard Dawkins

Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative.

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

— Christina Stead

Acting can be very selfish and all-consuming.

— Alessandro Nivola

There is another kind of altruism that seems to go beyond that, a kind of super-altruism, which humans appear to have. And I think…

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

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

— Max Beerbohm

Most human behavior is nothing other than the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure.

— Deepak Chopra

Of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to, every time. If…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Selfish genes actually explain altruistic individuals, and to me that's crystal-clear.

— Richard Dawkins