Quotes about Selfish Society

The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now. Votes: 3

The only society that works today is also one founded on mutual respect, on a recognition that we have a responsibility collectively and individually, to help each other on the basis of each other's equal worth. A selfish society is a contradiction in terms. Votes: 3

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty. Votes: 1

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. Votes: 1

My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better. Votes: 1

We've been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we're conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that's the right thing for society. Votes: 1

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish. Votes: 1

My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society. Votes: 1

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself. Votes: 1

Advertising is the place where the selfish interests of the manufacturer coincide with the interests of society. Votes: 0

The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain. Votes: 0

a society driven mainly by selfish individualism has all the potential for sustainability of a collection of angry scorpions in a bottle. Votes: 0

I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. That's no contribution to society. [Tennis] was purely selfish; that was for me. Votes: 0

I'm very selfish! I'm only thinking about how I would look in clothes, and not how we as a society might appear in those clothes. Votes: 0

Left to themselves people are noble, generous, uncorrupted, they'd create a completely new kind of society if only people weren't so blind, stupid and selfish. Votes: 0

Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion? Votes: 0