selfish quotes

  • We are survival machinesrobot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.

    - Richard Dawkins
      The Selfish Gene, ch.2.

  • Ihave precious little sympathy for theselfish proprietyof civilized man, and if awarof racesshould occurbetween the wild beasts and Lord Man, I would be tempted to sympathise with the bears.

    -John Muir
    A Thousand-Mile Walkto theGulf, ch.5,'Through Florida Swamps and Forests' (published1916).

  • In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

    - Robert Louis Stevenson
    Virginibus Puerisque,'Virginibus Puerisque', pt.1.

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