He is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“Those who make hostility a daily manner are often left in the lurch at difficult times.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Putting the need of your team above personal self-interest is a difficult thing to do. — Alex Scott Copy Share Image
Each man must live as an end in himself and follow his own rational self-interest. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Virtues are lost in self interest as rivers are lost in the sea.” — Francois de la Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is a feeble compassion that pulls up short where self-interest begins. — Norm Phelps Copy Share Image
For the state by its nature claims sovereignty, the right to an unlimited development of power, determined only by self-interest. It is… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
The more we can have peaceful trade both with Russia, with China, and with others, you know, there's a self interest in… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
In order to move on you need to stop focusing on their life, and you need to start focusing on your own… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
“Nobody does anything for the good of others; but as he pursues his own interests, he is brought to work unwittingly for… — Bangambiki Habyarimana 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
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
The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness and sheer… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Quite apart from the Church's financial self-interest in getting me out of the way, Baltimore is an overwhelmingly Catholic city and like… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
I think that, too many times, business has been seen as acting in its narrow self-interest rather than, essentially, contributing more broadly… — Michael Porter 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
This is not to say that becoming a father automatically makes you a good father. Fatherhood, like marriage, is a constant struggle… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
In addition to world conflicts, the most challenging problem we face today is hunger, deprivation and social injustice. Because we're ruled by… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
Everyone makes a difference. Someone who does something for others makes a big difference. A person who has no self-interest to do… — Anuj Copy Share Image
The God of the Bible is the God of liberation rather than oppression; a God of justice rather than injustice; a God… — Allan Boesak 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
[University students] hated the hypocrisy of adult society, the rigidity of its political institutions, the impersonality of its bureaucracies. They sought to… — Muriel Beadle Copy Share Image
I understand that unless you have a government of laws, rather than a government of people, you cannot protect dissent. And I… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
For many people, the mortgages they took out before 2008 are so high that they would be better off walking away from… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
The nature of men and of organized society dictates the maintenance in every field of action of the highest and purest standards… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Unless we believe the gospel, we will be driven in all we do-whether obeying or disobeying-by pride ('self-love') or fear ('of damnation').… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
For as long as men and women have talked about war, they have talked about it in terms of right and wrong.… — Michael Walzer 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
Still, even the most admirable of atheists is nothing more than a moral parasite, living his life based on borrowed ethics. This… — Theodore Beale Copy Share Image
The howl of self-interest is loud ... but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note. — Percy Bysshe Shelley 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
Ordinarily, everything we do is in our self-interest. Everything. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
More things are left undone through neglect of duty than through neglect of self-interest. — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Copy Share Image
There is a fine line between loving yourself and being an egotistical, self-centered individual. — Jayden Hayes Copy Share Image
Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
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