Selfishness Quote by Tony Judt

“Selfishness is uncomfortable even for the selfish. Hence the rise of gated communities: the privileged don't like to be reminded of their privileges -…

— Tony Judt

“What we traditionally call ‘selfish tendencies’ is only a narrow interpretation of what self-serving behaviour entails, wherein human characteristics are perceived through the flawed…

— Athene's Theory of Everything

“Selfishness is self-absorption, self-seeking behaviour that either disregards the rights and needs of others or tramples them deliberately in favour of personal gain.”

— Adelyn Birch

People who criticize The Selfish Gene like that often haven't read it. The selfish gene accounts for altruism toward kin and individuals who might…

— Richard Dawkins

“Selfishness may result in one's sense of superiority, but life as such will surely deny them.”

— Eraldo Banovac

Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary.

— Anonymous

We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly…

— Mortimer Adler

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

Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect

— George Sand

The meaning ascribed in popular usage to the word 'selfishness' is not merely wrong: it represents a devastating intellectual 'package-deal,' which is responsible, more…

— Ayn Rand

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

— Ouida

Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils.

— Nathanael Emmons