#selfish

People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#because #children #experience #get #get married

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#efforts #governments #law #liberty #man

It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past. ↗

— Bulent Ecevit

#countries #done #in the past #interests #meddle

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#because #born #generosity #let us #selfish

It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#always #bulk #chores #doing #even

The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behavior it generally assumes. It has no real place for fairness, malevolence, and benevolence, nor for the preservation of human life or any other moral concern. ↗

— Herman E. Daly

#morality #selfishness #life

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

But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#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