Animal Quote by Sri Chinmoy

We found evolution will punish you if you're selfish and mean. For a short time and against a specific set of opponents, some selfish…

— Chris Adami

The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness.

— Robert E. Ornstein

Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice.

— Herbie Mann

“I have nothing to do with others, I am only concerned with myself. I take advantage of the fact that the majority of mankind…

— W. Somerset Maugham

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

— Jane Austen

Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.

— Duke Ellington

You can be selfish by being too unselfish at times.

— Marc Gasol

“Human beings appear to be sufficiently selfish and calculating to be capable of indefinitely greater harmony and social homeostasis. This statement is not self-contradictory.…

— Edward O. Wilson

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

— George Eliot

For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.

— Bolesław Prus

You dont grow by being selfish. You grow by sacrificing.

— Anonymous