Self Interested Quotes

16 quotes by 16 authors

• Sure I am a religious man who is also passionate about conserving the environment. But I am also a CEO, with all the bad habits… — Tom Chappell
• Democrats see our voluntary military supported by taxpayer dollars as their personal Salvation Army. Self-interested behavior, such as deploying troops to serve the nation, is… — Ann Coulter
• We all need a story. It just turns out that the story we have been told for years - that people are naturally and primarily… — Ed Mayo
• Who but the Atman is capable of removing the bonds of ignorance, passion and self-interested action? — Adi Shankara
• The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behaviour it generally assumes. It has no real place for fairness, malevolence, and… — Herman E. Daly
• People in government are self-interested just like people in business. — David Boaz
• All ideas advanced to deal with the Florentine noise problem, the Florentine traffic problem, are Utopian, and nobody believes in them, just as nobody believed… — Mary McCarthy
• Heritage Action is a self-interested fundraising organization led by a former Giuliani staffer who is not taking counsel from real conservatives... It is a worthless… — Geoff Davis
• Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types of… — Simon Mainwaring
• Evolutionary psychologists seem to want to unmask our noblest motives as ultimately self-interested - to show that our love for children, compassion for the unfortunate… — Steven Pinker
• The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's essentially self-interested on… — Tom Stoppard
• You have a good heart and you think the good thing is to be guilty and kind but it's not always kind to be gentle… — Tony Kushner
• No one must ever let power or social, economic, or political interest turn him or her away from other human beings, from the attention they… — Tariq Ramadan
• Is it possible really to love other people? If I’m lonely and in pain, everyone outside me is potential relief—I need them. But can you… — David Foster Wallace
• Morality is often seen as an innovation, like agriculture and writing. From this perspective, babies are pint-sized psychopaths, self-interested beings who need to be taught… — Paul Bloom
• Alas few socialists are either benevolent enough to work hard at these occupations out of benevolence or self-interested enough to work hard at them for… — John McCarthy

Who Wrote These Self Interested Quotes

16 authors contributed a total of 16 Self Interested Quotes as follows:

• 1 Self Interested Quote by Tom Chappell
• 1 Self Interested Quote by Ann Coulter
• 1 Self Interested Quote by Ed Mayo
• 1 Self Interested Quote by Adi Shankara
• 1 Self Interested Quote by Herman E. Daly
• 1 Self Interested Quote by David Boaz
• 1 Self Interested Quote by Mary McCarthy
• 1 Self Interested Quote by Geoff Davis
• 1 Self Interested Quote by Simon Mainwaring
• 1 Self Interested Quote by Steven Pinker
• 1 Self Interested Quote by Tom Stoppard
• 1 Self Interested Quote by Tony Kushner
• 1 Self Interested Quote by Tariq Ramadan
• 1 Self Interested Quote by David Foster Wallace
• 1 Self Interested Quote by Paul Bloom
• 1 Self Interested Quote by John McCarthy