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Quotations about selfishness

Oscar WildeSelfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

 - Oscar Wilde

Tags:   selfishness  

Richard DawkinsLet us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.

 - Richard Dawkins

Tags:   design  genes  genetics  selfishness  

Thomas SowellThe idea that taxpayers owe it to you to pay for what you want suggests that much of today's education fails to instill reality, and instead panders to a self-centered sense of entitlement to what other people have earned.

 - Thomas Sowell

Tags:   entitlement  selfishness  taxation