Enlightened self-interest from those involved in hydrocarbons should lead to the support of technologies enabling the clean use of hydrocarbons, such as… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
With the rise of capitalism, it became more obvious that people pursue individual self-interest. The great nationalist in Italy, Giuseppe Mazzini, a… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
The passions possess a certain injustice and self interest which makes it dangerous to follow them, and in reality we should distrust… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Why do we not exhaust the heritage of the ages, spiritual and material for our immediate pleasure, and let posterity go hang?… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
There is a self interest in voting for a society where there is health care for all, where there's a mental health… — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
I think we can't be naive in dealing with the Russians or dealing with the Syrians. But at the same time, I… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I sense that, without sensitivity to physical pain and pleasure, man would not have known self-interest, and consequently know just or unjust… — Jonathan Balcombe Copy Share Image
President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He… — Mark Udall Copy Share Image
“Nature is infinitely rich and diverse in her ways. She can be seen to break her most unchanging laws. She has made… — Jan Potocki Copy Share Image
What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The only pictorial matter that is of interest to me is the matter and sentiments brought about by the work itself. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Putting the need of your team above personal self-interest is a difficult thing to do. — Alex Scott Copy Share Image
Nowhere has truth such a short life as in Sicily; a fact has scarcely happened five minutes before its genuine kernel has… — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Copy Share Image
The men who made the Industrial Revolution are usually pictured as hardfaced businessmen with no other motive than self-interest. That is certainly… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Self-interest leads to honing your skills, the better to trade with. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
While self-interest arising from the enjoyment of meat eating is obviously one reason for its entrenchment, and inertia another, a process of… — Carol J. Adams Copy Share Image
Aristotle thought that humans are rational animals and Hobbes thought that we act on the basis of rational self-interest. If only! It's… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
The dog has no ambition, no self-interest, no desire for vengeance, no fear other than that of displeasing. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as… — Alexander Fraser Tytler Copy Share Image
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Businessmen should not put their finger in politics, because they tend to think only of their own self-interest. But I worry about… — Diego Della Valle Copy Share Image
“All of our relationships are based on self-interest, discrimination and a perverse need for gain.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“ An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations , which Smith published in 1776, is the most… — Jerry Z. Muller Copy Share Image
