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
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
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
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 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
if we continue with what is surely our greatest Western temptation, and think that in some way history owes us a solution,… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition… — Major Owens Copy Share Image
The men who made the Industrial Revolution are usually pictured as hardfaced businessmen with no other motive than self-interest. That is certainly… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
As Mazzini said ... it is around the standard of duty rather than around the standard of self-interest that men must rally… — Henry George Copy Share Image
By a kind of happy pre-established harmony, such as a later age discovered between the needs of society and the self-interest of… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
It doesn't promote your life to reduce unearned guilt... You should get rid of that guilt. It's unearned. You don't deserve it.… — Yaron Brook Copy Share Image
Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
[Former chief executives] come away thinking that America needs a strong, functioning presidency to succeed, and they become very protective of that… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Most people are playing the game of compounding interest, which is self interest - how do they take care of themselves and… — Brock Pierce Copy Share Image
To become a token woman - whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
This is the power of art: The power to transcend our own self-interest, our solipsistic zoom-lens on life, and relate to the… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
The values that I have are the values I was raised with, from where I'm from, which is a middle-class place. So… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
That's how we slide, and while we slide we blame the world's problems on colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, corporatism, stupid white men, and… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Love...no such thing. Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear.… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
We need to graduate from the ridiculous notion that greed is some kind of elixir for capitalism - it's the downfall of… — Patricia Aburdene Copy Share Image
Gandhi rejects the Adam Smith notion of human nature as motivated by self-interest and brute needs and returns us to our spiritual… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from regard… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The theory that everyone acts from self-interest, direct or indirect, is psychologically unsound. . . . Throughout history . . . there… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
A commercial civilization is money-oriented, profit-oriented. Commercial values always tend to wrench a society free of tradition.Economics from education to public service… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
The marketplace is a wondrous institution. It harnesses the self-interest of each of us and puts it to work for the benefit… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures. Those… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
There is no self-interest completely unrelated to others' interests. Due to the fundamental interconnectedness which lies at the heart of reality, your… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Men follow their sentiments and their self-interest, but it pleases them to imagine that they follow reason. And so they look for,… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
The selfless love that we give to others, to the point of being willing to sacrifice our lives for them, is all… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“It always seemed strange to me that the things we admire in men: kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Never hate the person who has hurt you. Forgive them, smile, brush your shoulders off and live like they have never existed.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Trust a witness in all matters in which neither his self-interest, his passions, his prejudices, nor the love of the marvellous is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The jovial party broke up next morning. Breakings-up are capital things in our school-days, but in after life they are painful enough.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We are fast approaching a situation in which nobody will believe anything we [physicists] say in any matter that touches upon our… — Leo Kadanoff Copy Share Image
If human beings were not so consumed with self interest the world would be a better place. Replace self interest with, love… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
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