Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself. — George Bernard Shaw 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
We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee Copy Share Image
Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As far as the stars are from the earth, and as different as fire is from water, so much do self-interest and… — Lucan Copy Share Image
The claims of existing social arrangements and of self interest have been duly allowed for. We cannot at the end count them… — John Rawls 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
You are One with everything. When you are clear about this, your definition of self-interest will change. — Neale Donald Walsch 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
Even today you can look through almost any consumer or professional publication and find headlines that possess not a single one of… — John Caples Copy Share Image
It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
Attacking the indecency of life in much of the Southern Hemisphere is no longer a matter of grace, of charity, of patronizing… — Anthony Lewis Copy Share Image
By a kind of happy pre-established harmony, such as a later age discovered between the needs of society and the self-interest of… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
As Mazzini said ... it is around the standard of duty rather than around the standard of self-interest that men must rally… — Henry George 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
The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition… — Major Owens 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
“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 psychological peer pressure that the left has employed - and deployed, actually - on young people has been overwhelmingly successful. It… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Every time I tried to express my most heartfelt desires to be morally good I met with contempt and ridicule; and as… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Economic activity is no longer an adversarial contest between embattled sellers and buyers "In the distributed economy, where collaboration trumps competition, inclusivity… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
Self-interest and mutual interest are inextricably linked. National interests can best be advanced through collective action, ... Calculate not just the human… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
If none of your role models provide the answer, then it is time to go within and ask yourself, "What would make… — Bernie Siegel 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
There is a fundamental moral difference between a man who sees his self-interest in production and a man who sees it in… — Ayn Rand 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
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
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 cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle. — John Galt Copy Share Image
The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality. — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
Vain people can't focus beyond the reflection of themselves in a vanity. — Michael Travis Copy Share Image
Successful organizing is not built on self-interest but rather on dignity and a sense of purpose. — Paul Wellstone Copy Share Image
Capital must be propelled by self-interest; it cannot be enticed by benevolence. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
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