#selfish

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Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfish and wicked. But they are flattering the researchers and anyone who would claim to have discovered the opposite. No one needs a scientist to measure whether humans are prone to knavery. The question has been answered in the history books, the newspapers, the ethnographic record, and the letters to Ann Landers. But people treat it like an open question, as if someday science might discover that it's all a bad dream and we will wake up to find that it is human nature to love one another.


Steven Pinker


#human-nature #selfishness #dreams

One should be selfish bt only getting things which he deserves not what he likes or suits him,,,


Kish


#selfish #life

I suppose it is that sickness and weakness are selfish things and turn our inner eyes and sympathy on ourselves, whilst health and strength give love rein, and in thought and feeling he can wander where he wills.


Bram Stoker


#love #selfishness #sickness #love

God comes right out and tells us why he gives us more money than we need. It's not so we can find more ways to spend it. It's not so we can indulge ourselves and spoil our children. It's not so we can insulate ourselves from needing God's provision. It's so we can give and give generously (2 Corinthians 8:14; 9:11)


Randy Alcorn


#excess #generosity #giving #less #money

[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.


Aristophanes


#attributes #barter #character #demagoguery #government

I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.


Fyodor Dostoyevsky


#individualism #irony #selfishness #tea #hell

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.


Tennessee Williams


#lonely #many #seem #selfish #would

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.


Martin Luther King, Jr.


#creative #darkness #decide #destructive #every

In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.


David Mitchell


#selfishness

The problem is hedonism. The problem is the preening vanity and selfishness of 'coming out,' of parading private inclinations, of a kind that repel normal people, as if those inclinations were, all by themselves, marks of authenticity and virtue, of suffering and oppression.


John Derbyshire


#hedonish #selfishness #vanity #pessimism