“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
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
Children like their mothers especially to be standing still and watching them, even if they are sleeping. At least that's how I… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Just like self-interest is not selfishness, well, confidence is not a negative. Confidence is not an off-putting thing. It's, in fact, necessary… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
There is some self interest behind every relationship..this is a bitter truth. — Kshitij Roshan 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
It doesn't promote your life to reduce unearned guilt... You should get rid of that guilt. It's unearned. You don't deserve it.… — Yaron Brook 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
Every time I tried to express my most heartfelt desires to be morally good I met with contempt and ridicule; and as… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We have an infinite capacity for self interest, yet the infinite has absolutely no interest in us — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
That's how we slide, and while we slide we blame the world's problems on colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, corporatism, stupid white men, and… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
There is a fine line between loving yourself and being an egotistical, self-centered individual. — Jayden Hayes 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
It's proper that people have friends, friendships without self-interest. Without friends, life is too lonely. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
Courage is a decision you make to act in a way that works through your own fear for the greater good as… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
A shrewd man has to arrange his interests in order of importance and deal with them one by one; but often our… — François De La Rochefoucauld 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
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
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
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
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
“There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they… — Omar El Akkad 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
People and countries have done an enormous amount of damage in their attempts to bring about the best possible world. Communism is… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
