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
You are One with everything. When you are clear about this, your definition of self-interest will change. — Neale Donald Walsch 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
These days it's important to be your own best friend. Have your own back, and ride for yourself. Fight for yourself and… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, the greatest… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
You always need to have your best interest at heart. That doesn't mean become a selfish bitch. It means putting yourself first. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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
A highly worthwhile read with prescriptive examples for authentic sustainability and social justice initiatives at companies - not all about the brand,… — Rebecca Aguilar Copy Share Image
Most of us human beings tend to be parochial in our perceptions. What happens is that we have a very limited and… — Alan Borovoy Copy Share Image
I am not going to make any commitments to the teachers union to do anything until they do something that's other than… — Chris Christie 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
It's important that we recognize how extreme the Republicans are in almost every case and how against our self-interest it is to… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I definitely have a shareholders' perspective. I'm not doing that altruistically. I'm doing that because it's in my own self interest to… — Harold Simmons Copy Share Image
To set aside one’s prejudices, one’s present needs, and one’s own self interest in making a decision as a director for a… — Mervyn King Copy Share Image
People and countries have done an enormous amount of damage in their attempts to bring about the best possible world. Communism is… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
The economic distress of America's inner cities may be the most pressing issue facing the nation. The lack of businesses and jobs… — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become… — Karen Armstrong 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
“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
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
You know policy is driven purely in self interest. The Federal Reserve Bank and the commercial banks and the Wall Street banks… — Max Keiser 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
Ethics doesn't require us to ignore our self-interests or demand a life of self-sacrifice. It requires that we know the difference between… — Michael Josephson 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
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
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
The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest. — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and… — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share Image
A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Love longs to be free, a stranger to every worldly desire, lest its inner vision become dimmed, and lest worldly self-interest hinder… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Where self-interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellsprings of initiative and… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Some days I just need to take a step back and take some time for me, Be me, Love me, Pamper me,… — Karen Kostyla Copy Share Image
My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
Self-interest is hostile to the common good, but enlightened self-interest is not. And this is the best key to the meaning of… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
What is required from members of Congress and the public alike is a new spirit of devotion to the national welfare beyond… — Evan Bayh Copy Share Image
The guy in the airplane goes with you. So he has self-interest to do the good things, too, and I don't know… — Gordon Bethune Copy Share Image
“Our hearts clearly see our own interests but they are completely blind to other people's interests” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
