If Congress does its job in this regard, the residents of Puerto Rico will be empowered to act in their own self-interest… — Dick Thornburgh Copy Share Image
A just cause should need no interpretation yet flounders when confronted by self- interest and corruption. — Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
Some days I just need to take a step back and take some time for me, Be me, Love me, Pamper me,… — Karen Kostyla Copy Share Image
My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Self-interest is hostile to the common good, but enlightened self-interest is not. And this is the best key to the meaning of… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
What is required from members of Congress and the public alike is a new spirit of devotion to the national welfare beyond… — Evan Bayh Copy Share Image
The guy in the airplane goes with you. So he has self-interest to do the good things, too, and I don't know… — Gordon Bethune Copy Share Image
The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
We must draw on our early roots and remind people why the Labour party was created and who it sought to represent.… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
“Free enterprise runs on self interest. This is socialism and it runs on loyalty . . . if people were going to… — garrison keillor Copy Share Image
I am firmly convinced, as I have already said, that to effect any great social improvement, it is sympathy rather than self-interest,… — Henry George Copy Share Image
What makes us want to know the worst? Is it that we tire of preferring to know the best? Does curiosity always… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the… — James L. Buckley Copy Share Image
Mitt Romney's only bottom line is the one at the end of his own bank statement. The problem is that he confuses… — Chuck Schumer Copy Share Image
“He [Eugène Rougon] believed exclusively in himself; where another saw reasons, Rougon possessed convictions; he subordinated everything to the incessant aggrandisement of… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
Why do we not exhaust the heritage of the ages, spiritual and material for our immediate pleasure, and let posterity go hang?… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Suppose whether or not someone tells me a lie depends only on whether he wants to, but he is morally indifferent, he… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the gods have given you. It is now… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil necessary… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The difference between neoliberalism and fascism or Nazism or other forms of totalitarianism is that it takes questions of ideology seriously. It… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even the conduct, but never the object of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She had never realized any love save love as passion. Such love, though it expends itself in generosity and thoughtfulness, though it… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
One of the hardest things about life is doing whats best for you, even if it involves breaking someones heart. Including your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everybody's always going to have some self-interest. When it passes a certain point, that's when it become corruption. — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
If you happened to be born on third base, you didn't rub it in the face of the guy who wasn't even… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
What proposition is there respecting human nature which is absolutely and universally true? We know of only one,--and that is not only… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Freedom is indivisible, and either we are working for freedom or you are working for the sake of your self-interests and I… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
The Holy Grail of universal coverage in the United States may remain out of reach unless, through rational collective action overriding some… — Donald Berwick Copy Share Image
These days it's important to be your own best friend. Have your own back, and ride for yourself. Fight for yourself and… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Attacking the indecency of life in much of the Southern Hemisphere is no longer a matter of grace, of charity, of patronizing… — Anthony Lewis Copy Share Image
It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
Even today you can look through almost any consumer or professional publication and find headlines that possess not a single one of… — John Caples Copy Share Image
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
You are One with everything. When you are clear about this, your definition of self-interest will change. — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice. — John Osborne Copy Share Image
The claims of existing social arrangements and of self interest have been duly allowed for. We cannot at the end count them… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
As far as the stars are from the earth, and as different as fire is from water, so much do self-interest and… — Lucan Copy Share Image
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