A spirit of harmony can only survive if each of us remembers, when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
“It’s the moment when something happens not just deep among the trees but also in the dark interior of the human heart,… — Sandor Marai Copy Share Image
The notion that economic life is a distinct realm, governed by immutable laws of narrow self-interest, is giving way to a much… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
I am not a communist first and an individualist second. I am an individualist first, and I don't mean this in the… — Murray Bookchin 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
Which is more subversive-and corrosive-to believe in altruism or to see it simply as a cloak of self interest? Even if altruism… — Frank Prochaska Copy Share Image
Besides justifying the transfer of wealth to kleptocrats, institutionalized religion brings two other important benefits to centralized societies. First, shared ideology or… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
All too often, as we know from experience, people do not choose life; they do not accept the gospel of life, but… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“In the act of selfishness, you bind demerit karma and in the act of sacrificing your own self-interest for the sake of… — Dada Bhagwan 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
Successful societies-those which progress economically and politically and can control the terms on which they deal with the outside world-succeed because they… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Level 5 leaders channel their ego needs away from themselves and into the larger goal of building a great company. It's not… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
No one in this country need go hungry, and alleviating the problem is primarily a matter of readjusting our priorities. In both… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
Men follow their sentiments and their self-interest, but it pleases them to imagine that they follow reason. And so they look for,… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
The human species is its own enemy. We're our own demise. Greed and self interest is our bondage. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with being proud of America, believing that America can do great things. America can do great things, it has… — Peter Beinart Copy Share Image
if we continue with what is surely our greatest Western temptation, and think that in some way history owes us a solution,… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
Washington is deeply frustrating because so many of the positions that politicians hold are a product of ephemeral self-interest. They reverse themselves,… — Ari Melber Copy Share Image
You're working not for the corporate interest, not for the government interest, not for your own self-interest. You have a higher calling. — Lynne Stewart 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
