Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness. - Mario Benedetti

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

My first instinct was Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) cannot be president of the United States. She needs to lose because it's the thing she wants most on the planet Earth.

Mario Benedetti

Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness.

Generosity, Legitimate, Selfishness

Same Author Quotes

Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.

Dream, Enough, Five, Life, Minutes

Perfection is a polished collection of errors.

Collection, Collections, Errors, Perfection, Polished

We are born sad and we die sad, but meanwhile we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle.

Bodies, Body, Born, Love, Meanwhile, Miracle

After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life.

Death, Life, Symbol, Symbols

An intellectuals weapon is writing, but sometimes people react as if it were a firearm. A writer can do a lot to change the situation, but as far as I know, no dictatorship has fallen because of a sonnet.

People, React, Sonnet, Weapon, Weapons, Writing

Similar Quotes

Robert Jay Lifton

The scientists who made the atomic bomb are, in my sense, people with a tragic destiny. You know, there was the US race with Nazi Germany and good evidence that the Germans were more advanced in nuclear physics, and we had to get the bomb first. But then there was the use of that dreadful weapon, or instrument of genocide, and many of the more sensitive scientists turned quickly into anti - nuclear people - and very effective ones.

Atomic, Destiny, Good, People, Physics, Weapon

David Mandel

My first instinct was Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) cannot be president of the United States. She needs to lose because it's the thing she wants most on the planet Earth.

President, United States, Needs, States, Thing

Richard Yates

He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to forgive.

Contrite, Forgive, Forgiveness, Forgiving, Power, Wanted

Julie Powell

Cooking saved my life! Sure, there were some miserable moments, but that was sort of the point, to find something challenging and consuming enough to take a place in the center of my life into which was creeping a horrible feeling of stasis and the doom of mediocrity.

Center, Challenges, Cooking, Enough, Food, Life

Si Robertson

Never insult a mans beard, you either get thunder or lightning

Beard, Insult, Lightning, Mans, Thunder