Arthur Hugh Clough Quotes

Economic Man faces a merciless world alone and unaided, his hand against every other's.

Selsdon Man is designing a system of society for the ruthlessness and the pushing, the uncaring. His message to the rest is: you're out on your own.

The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people to go more and more into self-interest. Even to see other folks as competition.

stinginess seemed instinctive to him. Darwinian even. He hadn't gotten to his current size by sharing.

Every man for himself.

For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

The Republicans believe that the wagon train will not make it to the frontier unless some of the old and some of the young, and some of the weak are left behind by the side of the trail.

I have not survived 50 years in showbusiness by being Mr. Nice. If you are weak, this business eats you up.

The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and totally selfish and uncaring of others.

For some people, success is a zero sum game. They think that if they push other people out of the way, fewer people can compete with them. That's one way of seeing the world. It's dog eat dog. It's, sadly, always going to be there.

I see life and the world simply as an arena for competition. That's just what people do, and there are always going to be winners and losers.

It's a cold world out there, and this world will pass you by if you give another man anything over yourself.

To describe Peter Thiel as simply a libertarian wildly understates the case. His belief system is based on unapologetic selfishness and economic Darwinism.

When you're competing, you need to be selfish. You need to think of yourself first.

The survival of the fittest is going to make some man very lonesome some day.

Savage is he who saves himself.

Life for the strongest. There is no sympathy for the slain, only admiration for the winner's strength.

There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to suceed and be great. Our thought has been 'Let every man look out for himself, let every generation look out for itself,' while we reared giant machinery which made it impossible that any but those who stood at the levers of control should have a chance to look out for themselves.

Namely, if I am challenging the base of all these institutions, I'm challenging the moral code of altruism. The precept that man's moral duty is to live for others. That man must sacrifice himself to others. Which is the present day morality.

It's a god-eat-god world.

Loving behavior contributes to the group at the expense of the individual. Competition contributes to the survival of the individual at the expense of the group. In the garden of life, some people are more like flowers, and other people are more like weeds.

Life on earth is hard. Competition for the necessities of life is fierce. How ridiculous to believe that the law of harsh survival would not be true elsewhere, or that it would be negated by the progress of technology in an advanced civilization.

Collectivists would have you believe that individualism is merely another word for selfishness, because individualists oppose welfare and other forms of coercive redistribution of wealth, but just the opposite is true. Individualists advocate true charity, which is the voluntary giving of their own money, while collectivists advocate the coercive giving of other people's money; which, of course, is why it is so popular.