"We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive." ― Lord Byron Topic(s): History Tags: selfish More From Lord Byron "America is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people." "I love not man the less, but Nature more." "Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!" More In History "There aren’t just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It’s our evolutionary history."― James Lovelock "In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated."― John McCarthy "It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true."― Woodrow Wilson