The only pictorial matter that is of interest to me is the matter and sentiments brought about by the work itself. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
What is the best way to go beyond self-interest and obsession with personal demands, needs and disappointments? The answer is: Whatever you… — Gurumayi Chidvilasananda Copy Share Image
It's overwhelmingly in the self-interest of the United States of America to have a secure, democratic friend, a strategic partner like Israel. — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Social issues have been used to distract Americans from their own self interests since Nixon's southern strategy, and now people are paying… — Deborah Kass Copy Share Image
My main life lesson from investing: self-interest is the most powerful force on earth, and can get people to embrace and defend… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
In a reality, what we should be doing is having quiet diplomacy with the Russians to convince them that it's in their… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“The lesson I learned is that when you give someone authority, you must be conscious you are doing so and continue to… — Margie Warrell Copy Share Image
Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their ''evil'' look at such times is… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He… — Mark Udall Copy Share Image
Adam Smith had one overwhelmingly important triumph: he put into the center of economics the systematic analysis of the behavior of individuals… — George Stigler Copy Share Image
To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing... When I find myself facing a blank page, that’s always… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“Shirking and sharking, in all their many varieties, have been sown broadcast by the ill-fated cause; and even those who have contemplated… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. Out of the collapse… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The very essence of capitalism is under threat as business is now seen as a personal wealth accumulator. We have to bring… — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
We cannot doubt that self-interest is the mainspring of human nature. It must be clearly understood that this word is used here… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
We must formulate, with both imagination and restraint, a new approach to the Middle East - not pressing our case so hard… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
For as long as men and women have talked about war, they have talked about it in terms of right and wrong.… — Michael Walzer Copy Share Image
In the background lurks the scourge of international terrorism. There are people exercising power in a few countries and leading political factions… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
You know policy is driven purely in self interest. The Federal Reserve Bank and the commercial banks and the Wall Street banks… — Max Keiser Copy Share Image
Aside from higher considerations, charity often operates as a vastly wise and prudent principle-a great safeguard to its possessor. Men have committed… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Christianity has held back any further advances in human consciousness for the past thousand years. And for the past century it's been… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
I shall not fear to say that the doctrine of self-interest rightly understood seems to me of all the philosophic theories the… — Alexis de Tocqueville 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
To be just, it is not enough to refrain from injustice. One must go further and refuse to play its game, substituting… — Pedro Arrupe Copy Share Image
Since unhappiness excites interest, many, in order to render themselves interesting, feign unhappiness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The visual arts must communicate to the human spirit, forcing individuals to reflect on themselves and their existence beyond their own self-interest. — Dean Mitchell Copy Share Image
I actually think that self-interest is overrated as an all-purpose guide to political motive. It leaves out something at least as powerful… — George Packer Copy Share Image
If you wish to be more influential, spend more time being interested than you do trying to be interesting. — Josh Hinds Copy Share Image
Never appeal to a man's 'better nature.' He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification. — C. J. Mahaney Copy Share Image
Politics and self-interest have been so uniformly connected, that the world, from being so often deceived, has a right to be suspicious… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The basic of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I neva understood wot my ex meant wen she said: I lov u too much n I mean it from d thing… — Reian Jain Copy Share Image
There is an ongoing battle between conscience and self-interest in which, at some point, we have to take sides. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Most business models have focused on self interest instead of user experience. Those are the kinds of problems we solve to solve. — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
The dog has no ambition, no self-interest, no desire for vengeance, no fear other than that of displeasing. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
I see no clear reason why the doctrine of self-interest properly understood should turn men away from religious beliefs. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Just because you have stolen someone's heart, luckily owned and occupied as a home, doesn't give you the audacity to enforce hurtful… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
