A Quote by William E. Gladstone

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

William E. Gladstone

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Curse Greatest Human Human Race Race Selfishness

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William E. Gladstone
British - Leader
December 29, 1809 - May 19, 1898

The ultimate destiny of the human race is the greatest moral perfection, provided that it is achieved through human freedom, whereby alone man is capable of the greatest happiness.

Immanuel Kant

Books are the curse of the human race.

Benjamin Disraeli

The greatest productive force is human selfishness.

Robert A. Heinlein

I heard of somebody once who said he was interested in doing the greatest amount of good for the greatest number, and that the greatest number was number one. That was himself. That may sound like a little bit of selfishness, but if that is selfishness, at least it is a very intelligent selfishness. Everyone has a right to be interested in himself, and I am confident that God wants us to be interested in ourselves first; that is, the first soul that anyone should bring to God should be his own soul.

Sterling W Sill

This may be the curse of human race . Not that we are different from one anther , but we are so alike .

Salman Rushdie

The whole of religion has been one uniform curse to the human race.

Richard Carlile

The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness.

Robert E. Ornstein

In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.

David Mitchell

Religion has been a curse on the world and humanity will never know freedom until this curse has been exorcised. It is the curse of ignorance, which has cast its dark shadow over thousands of years of human suppression.

David Icke

I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system.

Gore Vidal

The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God.

Thomas Merton

Any messages for me?" Usually I got one or two, but mostly people who wanted my help preferred to talk in person. "Yes. Hold on." She pulled out a handful of pink tickets and recited from memory, without checking the paper. "Seven forty-two a.m., Mr. Gasparian: I curse you. I curse your arms so they wither and die and fall off your body. I curse your eyeballs to explode. I curse your feet to swell until blue. I curse your spine to crack. I curse you. I curse you. I curse you.

Ilona Andrews

Not only was Cain called upon to suffer, but because of his wickedness, he became the father of an inferior race. A curse was placed upon him and that curse has been continued through his lineage and must do so while time endures...