Quote by Alexis Carrel

Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.

Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to

Summary

This quote suggests that individuals often prioritize causing harm to others over taking actions that would benefit themselves. It implies that people tend to exert more energy or actively engage in negative behaviors directed towards others rather than seeking personal growth or improvement. This perspective highlights the tendency for some individuals to intentionally inflict pain, either physically or emotionally, on others, possibly driven by personal motives or a lack of empathy. Overall, the quote emphasizes the dark aspect of human nature where harming others seems to outweigh working towards self-interest or self-betterment.

Topics

Self Help

By Alexis Carrel

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Julian is bluff and sturdy, royal; he possesses a gracefully

Julian is bluff and sturdy, royal; he possesses a gracefully muscular, equine beauty so natural it suggests that beauty itself is a fundamental human condition and not a mutation in the general design.

Michael Cunningham

Beauty

The Minutemen were seen as more of an art thing than Black F

The Minutemen were seen as more of an art thing than Black Flag, although I didn't see them that way. It confused people when we put out Saccharine Trust, too.

Trust

Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?

Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?

Death

I don't regret anything I ever do or say. I don't like to li

I don't regret anything I ever do or say. I don't like to live my life being censored. I like to say what I feel, and I think people respect that because you're honest.

Respect

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my fa

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.

Failure

I do not seek, I find.

I do not seek, I find.

Creativity

Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a specialprovidence in t

Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a specialprovidence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will benow; if it be not now, yet it will come: thereadiness is all.

William Shakespeare

Sadness Providence Hamlet Que Sera Sera Readiness Augury

Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marri

Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.

Marriage

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

Happiness

We climbed the stairs to the third floor, where Osama bin La

We climbed the stairs to the third floor, where Osama bin Laden died early in the morning of May 2, 2011.

Peter L. Bergen

Morning

This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to p

This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I choose to die. Where this takes me, there I choose to go. I choose. This I choose to do.

Terry Pratchett

Responsibility Choice Agency

Age merely shows what children we remain.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Age