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
Recognize and respect mutual self-interests, then build creative collaborations to serve them. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest. — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Law 13: When asking for help, appeal to people's self-interests, never to their mercy or gratitude. — The 48 Laws Of Power Copy Share Image
It's proper that people have friends, friendships without self-interest. Without friends, life is too lonely. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
Don't spend so much time analyzing me and my life. Worry about your own, that is obviously where the real issues lie. — Brittany Marcum Copy Share Image
The name of the game is taking care of yourself, because you're going to live long enough to wish you had. — Grace Mirabella Copy Share Image
Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self- interest, you… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
For the state by its nature claims sovereignty, the right to an unlimited development of power, determined only by self-interest. It is… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
Most apparent conspiracies result from consistent local self-interest with no need for global coordination. — Patri Friedman 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
I definitely have a shareholders' perspective. I'm not doing that altruistically. I'm doing that because it's in my own self interest to… — Harold Simmons 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
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
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
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
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
It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as… — Alexander Fraser Tytler Copy Share Image
Love is reckless; not reason. Reason seeks a profit. Loves comes on strong, consuming herself unabashed. Yet in the midst of suffering… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Besides justifying the transfer of wealth to kleptocrats, institutionalized religion brings two other important benefits to centralized societies. First, shared ideology or… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“Rest is good, but laziness is not. Labour is good, but slavery is not. Wine is good, but drunkenness is not. Food… — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
Our capacity to think, except in the service of what we are dangerously deluded in supposing is our self-interest and in conformity… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
There are many ways to cover up our sin. We may justify or minimize it by blaming circumstances and others people. However,… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
No one in this country need go hungry, and alleviating the problem is primarily a matter of readjusting our priorities. In both… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
Never for a moment believe that the great body of the citizens of any State or States can deliberately intend to do… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Capital must be propelled by self-interest; it cannot be enticed by benevolence. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Successful organizing is not built on self-interest but rather on dignity and a sense of purpose. — Paul Wellstone Copy Share Image
Vain people can't focus beyond the reflection of themselves in a vanity. — Michael Travis Copy Share Image
Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality. — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle. — John Galt Copy Share Image
