The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Secularism does not accept many things as absolutes. Its principal objectives are pleasure and self-interest. Often, those who embrace secularism have a… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Love...no such thing. Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear.… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
In view of the importance of philanthropy in our society, it is surprising that so little attention has been given to it… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
How do we give credible hope to the billion poorest people in the world? It requires compassion to get ourselves started, and… — Paul Collier Copy Share Image
Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Opportunism is self interest seeking with guile often involving subtle forms of deceit, especially calculated efforts to mislead, distort, disguise, obfuscate, or… — Oliver E. Williamson Copy Share Image
“I belin to see how a post-money society would work in practice. When we are in paid employment, we are exchanging our… — Cliff James Copy Share Image
To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The idea of the self interests me a great deal. What is the self? And finding yourself, and which self? In a… — Malcolm Morley 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 most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest. — Peter Watts 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
Human beings are 'emotional amoral egoists,' driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated,… — Nayef Al-Rodhan Copy Share Image
I don't believe we're only motivated by our own self-interests. Often out of crisis comes this enormous wellspring of generosity and motivation. — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
When I begin doing something I find interesting, I don't know when to stop it become even more interesting for me.hahaa — Mia Copy Share Image
Even if this advice to portfolio decision makers to drop dead is good advice, it obviously is not counsel that will be… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
I am always someone who follows the research more than my self-interest. It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little… — A. Bartlett Giamatti 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
How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star? — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
