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It is important that when pursing our own self-interest we should be 'wise selfish' and not 'foolish selfish'. Being foolish selfish means pursuing our own… — Dalai Lama
A study of interactions between women and obstetricians offers an explanation. It described three levels of increasing power imbalance: In the first, you fight and… — Henci Goer
In a world of global dependencies with no corresponding global polity and few tools of global justice, the rich of the world are free to… — Zygmunt Bauman
The Bible says that when we obey God’s commands, we benefit. I think we naturally assume that if we look out for our own interests… — Francis Chan
Be careful in your relations with the government; for they draw no man close to themselves except for their own interests. They appear as friends… — Gamaliel
Everything you stand for, believe in, experience and aspire to is the result of thought. And thought is destructive because it is nothing more than… — U.G. Krishnamurti
We must recognize that every nation determines its policies in terms of its own interests. — John F. Kennedy
People become less inhibited from wanting to change social and economic conditions in a radical fashion according to their own interests, and from being prepared… — Gunnar Myrdal
You can bring down governments, you can do a lot of things that are in your own interests even though liberals will get very antsy… — Tom Tancredo
[M]odern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own interests under minimal… — Alasdair MacIntyre
Luxury and excessive refinement are sure forerunners of the decadence of states, because when all individuals seek their own interests they neglect the public weal. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The man who is meek is not even sensitive about himself. He is not always watching himself and his own interests. He is not always… — Martyn
everything is too important ever to be entrusted to professional experts, because every organization of such professionals and every established social organization becomes a vested-interest… — Carroll Quigley
Howard Dean is not the first politician to distort facts in his own interests. But many activists in the party he now leads are puzzled… — Robert Novak
What is the nature of true morality? I have argued ... that it must be a kind of ethics involving letting go of one's own… — George F. R. Ellis
When we are chafed and fretted by small cares, a look at the stars will show us the littleness of our own interests. — Maria Mitchell
Nothing is easier for passion than to overcome reason, but the greatest triumph is to conquer a man's own interests. — Jean de la Bruyere
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. But even Capitalist cynicism will admit that however… — George Bernard Shaw
History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing… — Umberto Eco
The problem is, of course, that these interest groups are all asking for changes, but their enthusiasm for change rapidly disappears when it affects the… — Angela Merkel
If we all think only of our own interests, we are headed for collective disaster - just look at what we are doing to our… — Peter Singer
The problem with the Tea Party is that it's been used in a way that scares people into supporting an agenda that's counter to their… — Matt Taibbi
Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests. — Linus Torvalds
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it.… — Gore Vidal
Many of those who once were so passionately in love with Christ now run about pursuing their own interests. They're burdened down with stress and… — David Wilkerson

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