Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction. — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
Part of diplomacy is to open different definitions of self-interest. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
All men are idolators, some of fame, others of self-interest, most of pleasure. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. — James F. Byrnes Copy Share Image
For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
When business starts using its voice for the benefit of the country as a whole, not just in its narrow self interest,… — Ben Cohen Copy Share Image
Secularism does not accept many things as absolutes. Its principal objectives are pleasure and self-interest. Often, those who embrace secularism have a… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
The idea of the self interests me a great deal. What is the self? And finding yourself, and which self? In a… — Malcolm Morley Copy Share Image
“Nobody does anything for the good of others; but as he pursues his own interests, he is brought to work unwittingly for… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries more weight than… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Along with others, I have tried to pry economists away from narrow assumptions about self interest. Behavior is driven by a much… — Gary Becker Copy Share Image
In order to move on you need to stop focusing on their life, and you need to start focusing on your own… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
This is not to say that becoming a father automatically makes you a good father. Fatherhood, like marriage, is a constant struggle… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
Under a socialist system every nation will be the supreme arbiter of its own destinies, national and international; will be forced into… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
If there is one thing I’ve learned in my years on this planet, it’s that the happiest and most fulfilled people I’ve… — John Glenn Copy Share Image
In a nuclear age, and in an age of serious environmental degradation, apocalyptic belief creates a serious second order danger. The precarious… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Adam Smith pointed out that there were three things that make us more prosperous, in a general sort of way: freedom to… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Creative capitalism takes this interest in the fortunes of others and ties it to our interest in our own fortunes in ways… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I am not a communist first and an individualist second. I am an individualist first, and I don't mean this in the… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
With the more endowed nations constrained by their own higher technological capacity for self-destruction as well as by self interest, war may… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
His constant fight is with the Nafs (self-interest), the root of all disharmony and the only enemy of man. By crushing this… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
I think we can't be naive in dealing with the Russians or dealing with the Syrians. But at the same time, I… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“It’s the moment when something happens not just deep among the trees but also in the dark interior of the human heart,… — Sandor Marai Copy Share Image
Nowhere has truth such a short life as in Sicily; a fact has scarcely happened five minutes before its genuine kernel has… — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Copy Share Image
As I see it, there are two great forces of human nature: self-interest, and caring for others. Capitalism harnesses self-interest in a… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Dictatorship nations are outlaws. Any free nation had the right to invade Nazi Germany and, today, has the right to invade Soviet… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
“In the world as it is, man moves primarily because of self-interest. In the world as it is, the right things are… — Saul D. Alinsky Copy Share Image
Recognize and respect mutual self-interests, then build creative collaborations to serve them. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
“All of our relationships are based on self-interest, discrimination and a perverse need for gain.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
There is some self interest behind every relationship..this is a bitter truth. — Kshitij Roshan Copy Share Image
