Better place Quote by Bertrand Russell

“Rational self-interest is always what morality boils down to.”

— Rebecca Goldstein

“The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions,” he wrote a Brooklyn minister. “Our inner balance and even our…

— Walter Isaacson

I shall not fear to say that the doctrine of self-interest rightly understood seems to me of all the philosophic theories the most appropriate…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Self-centeredness is the basis for all sorts of immoral behavior as well as all the sorrows of humanity.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Once again, claims of moral superiority are used to justify extreme actions. Once again, the fact that some people are hurt is shrugged off…

— Michael Crichton

“When morality is reduced to personal preferences and when no one can be held morally accountable, society quickly falls into disorder.”

— Charles W. Colson

“Given our obsession with self, it is hardly surprising we think it is fine for us to live in a world with malleable moral…

— Stephen McAndrew

“I read Reinhold Niebuhr’s Moral Man and Immoral Society, where Niebuhr talked about how the baser self has to deceive the better self to…

— Barry Eisler

“The worst thing about social conditioning is that it makes an individual of that society genuinely believe that he or she is being moral,…

— Abhijit Naskar

“Moral allegories about people determined to root out wickedness in others while denying it in themselves.” “Actually,”

— Christina Baker Kline

We are all members of the same flawed species. Putting our moral vision into practice means imposing our will on others. The human lust…

— Steven Pinker

“the standard of morality is raised just in proportion as Buddha-nature or real self extends and amplifies itself in different times and places.”

— Kaiten Nukariya