Personal Advantage Quotes
10 quotes by 10 authors
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Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.
— Ambrose Bierce
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
10 authors contributed a total of 10 Personal Advantage Quotes as follows: