How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star? — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
Each man must live as an end in himself and follow his own rational self-interest. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
“Virtues are lost in self interest as rivers are lost in the sea.” — Francois de la Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee Copy Share Image
More things are left undone through neglect of duty than through neglect of self-interest. — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt 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
As frost to the bud, and blight to the blossom, even such is self-interest to friendship; for confidence cannot dwell where selfishness… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
[U]nless oppressed groups stick together, and on alliances of self interest rather than do-goodism; nothing can be accomplished in the long run… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Whenever there is a conflict between universal principles and self-interest, self-interest is likely to prevail. — George Soros Copy Share Image
The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good… — Gough Whitlam Copy Share Image
The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness and sheer… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I think that, too many times, business has been seen as acting in its narrow self-interest rather than, essentially, contributing more broadly… — Michael Porter 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
I am always someone who follows the research more than my self-interest. It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
The first beneficiary of compassion is always oneself. When compassion, or warmheartedness, arises in us and our focus shifts away from our… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Even if this advice to portfolio decision makers to drop dead is good advice, it obviously is not counsel that will be… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
When the healthy pursuit of self-interest and self-realizatio n turns into self-absorption , other people can lose their intrinsic value in our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's a civic virtue to be exposed to things that appear to be outside your interest. In a complex world, almost everything… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I sense that, without sensitivity to physical pain and pleasure, man would not have known self-interest, and consequently know just or unjust… — Jonathan Balcombe Copy Share Image
I hate being human, not the fact I hate my humanity. Because I'm in this prison, my bones holding everything together. Breathing… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
While self-interest arising from the enjoyment of meat eating is obviously one reason for its entrenchment, and inertia another, a process of… — Carol J. Adams 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
I understand that unless you have a government of laws, rather than a government of people, you cannot protect dissent. And I… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
[University students] hated the hypocrisy of adult society, the rigidity of its political institutions, the impersonality of its bureaucracies. They sought to… — Muriel Beadle Copy Share Image
I put my hand out and wiped the vomit from his lips, and cooed soothing words to him. It squeezed my heart… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
Invitation is not only a step in bringing people together, it is also a fundamental way of being in a community. It… — Peter Block Copy Share Image
I suspect it is for one’s self-interest that one looks at one’s surroundings and one’s self. This search is personally born and… — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is a fine line between loving yourself and being an egotistical, self-centered individual. — Jayden Hayes Copy Share Image
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