Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice. — John Osborne Copy Share Image
Attacking the indecency of life in much of the Southern Hemisphere is no longer a matter of grace, of charity, of patronizing… — Anthony Lewis Copy Share Image
It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
Even today you can look through almost any consumer or professional publication and find headlines that possess not a single one of… — John Caples Copy Share Image
What is required from members of Congress and the public alike is a new spirit of devotion to the national welfare beyond… — Evan Bayh Copy Share Image
The guy in the airplane goes with you. So he has self-interest to do the good things, too, and I don't know… — Gordon Bethune Copy Share Image
My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
Some days I just need to take a step back and take some time for me, Be me, Love me, Pamper me,… — Karen Kostyla Copy Share Image
Aristotle thought that humans are rational animals and Hobbes thought that we act on the basis of rational self-interest. If only! It's… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Enlightened self-interest from those involved in hydrocarbons should lead to the support of technologies enabling the clean use of hydrocarbons, such as… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
Never again will I allow our political self-interest to deter us from doing what we know to be morally right. Atrocity and… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and… — Majora Carter Copy Share Image
We are all members of the same flawed species. Putting our moral vision into practice means imposing our will on others. The… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The moment that the state came into conflict with the higher power, the moment that it set itself up as an end… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most powerful lesson other brands can learn from Nike is the need to act in accordance with the reality of… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
Quite simply, there can be no popular sovereignty without a real belief in the value of government. If government does not assume… — Charles Derber Copy Share Image
The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Self-interest is hostile to the common good, but enlightened self-interest is not. And this is the best key to the meaning of… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the… — Joseph Lancaster Copy Share Image
We are driven by self-interest, it’s necessary to survive. But we need wise self-interest that is generous and co-operative, taking others’ interests… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Children like their mothers especially to be standing still and watching them, even if they are sleeping. At least that's how I… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I don't trust a man who talks about ethics when he is picking my pocket. But if he is acting in his… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
What guided Chaplin was the proper protection of self-interest (or craziness). So Chapling, Douglas Fairbanks, and Mark Pickford, with DW Griffith and… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group can come to feel part of… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
The philanthropic tradition is older than democracy, older than Christianity, and older than higher education. It gives form and purpose to personal… — Robert L. Payton Copy Share Image
Allow your intuition (or spirit) to save you from heartache. Stop trying to change yourself for a relationship that's not meant to… — Kemmy Nola Http://wwwamoreloveforlifecom Copy Share Image
“But many people want to look upon God with the eyes with which they look upon a cow; they want to love… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
There is nothing you can do about life. Life doesn't wield to our command, nor does it change for our self interest.… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
It's going to have to come to a point where politicians in their own political self-interest think it's safe and advantageous to… — Rick Steves Copy Share Image
The acceptance of corporatism causes us to deny and undermine the legitimacy of the individual as citizen in a democracy. The result… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
You are responsible for your life. You live the way that is in your best interest. Though some will adore you, and… — Dr Anil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I guess it's always easy to use 'I am busy' as an excuse. Looking back, that was a pretty lame excuse. I… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
The notion that economic life is a distinct realm, governed by immutable laws of narrow self-interest, is giving way to a much… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Gingrich was a far more volatile and aggressive individual than Boehner, but the institutional norms of self-restraint, and perhaps even self-interest, have… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the… — James L. Buckley Copy Share Image
Mitt Romney's only bottom line is the one at the end of his own bank statement. The problem is that he confuses… — Chuck Schumer Copy Share Image
What makes us want to know the worst? Is it that we tire of preferring to know the best? Does curiosity always… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
