Personal Advantage Quotes

10 quotes by 10 authors

Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy. — Ambrose Bierce
Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information to personal advantage. The information… — Robert Wright
The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course,… — J. Irwin Miller
Liberalism is the party of upstarts who have insinuated themselves between the people and its big men. Liberals feel themselves as isolated individuals, responsible to… — Arthur Moeller van den Bruck
To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were)… — Edmund Burke
Since when do grown men and women, who presume to hold high government office and exercise what they think of as "moral leadership," require ethics… — Meg Greenfield
Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the welfare of the… — Robert A. Heinlein
And I could weep at how mean people are and how they betray their fellow creatures, perhaps for the sake of personal advantage. It is… — Sophie Scholl
She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ruins. She had to extract a… — Gustave Flaubert
It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Who Wrote These Personal Advantage Quotes

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