Virtue Of Selfishness Quotes
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Selfishness is not a virtue. Altruism is not a moral weakness. Taxation is the price we pay for civilization.
— Darryl Cunningham
Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
— E. O. Wilson
In the dark, time feels different than when it is light.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds.
— Steven Rattner
Psychology lures even most serious people into romancing, and quite unconsciously.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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
Skinny women don't enjoy being told they're skinny nowadays. They enjoy telling you how they got that way, as though starvation were an achievement.
— Russell Baker
There is a date fixed when our work will end, which gives us assurance it will be completed.
— Jonah Books
His eyes were green chips of flame, and the growl was so thick it blurred the air around him, the sound of a very pissed off skinchanger.
— Lilith Saintcrow
He's a guy. He has built in testosterone issues.
— Pete Hautman
Truman said he only needed a daily intelligence digest to keep from having to read a two-foot stack of cables every morning.
— Tim Weiner
I think that if everybody changed and tried to make their music political, it'd be kind of a bummer.
— Jack Johnson
While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.
— Oliver Goldsmith
You deserve a man who will take you and keep you, not a man who will have you and leave you. I can't be the man who does that to you.
— Elizabeth Finn
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.
— Jessica Lange
What people called the truth seemed worthless to her; what was it but a furtive, bruised story to convince yourself life was worth living.
— Alice Hoffman
Training for the Olympics was a lifelong endeavor and took many years.
— Kristi Yamaguchi
It's sad that we have become so accustomed to bad service that we're shocked when we get good service.
— Neil Cavuto
It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero