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
Self-interest speaks all manner of tongues and plays all manner of parts, even that of disinterestedness. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We need to graduate from the ridiculous notion that greed is some kind of elixir for capitalism - it's the downfall of… — Patricia Aburdene 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
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
The moment that the state came into conflict with the higher power, the moment that it set itself up as an end… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light. — Aaron Cohen Copy Share Image
Here's what I do believe very strongly: that once capitalism comes into existence, once it creates this mythology of a stingy nature,… — Murray Bookchin 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
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
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
Love longs to be free, a stranger to every worldly desire, lest its inner vision become dimmed, and lest worldly self-interest hinder… — Thomas a Kempis 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
The psychological peer pressure that the left has employed - and deployed, actually - on young people has been overwhelmingly successful. It… — Rush Limbaugh 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
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
Gandhi rejects the Adam Smith notion of human nature as motivated by self-interest and brute needs and returns us to our spiritual… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Vain people can't focus beyond the reflection of themselves in a vanity. — Michael Travis Copy Share Image
Quite simply, there can be no popular sovereignty without a real belief in the value of government. If government does not assume… — Charles Derber Copy Share Image
We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and… — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share Image
Part of diplomacy is to open different definitions of self-interest. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
