Self Interested Quotes
16 quotes by 16 authors
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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
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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
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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
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Who but the Atman is capable of removing the bonds of ignorance, passion and self-interested action?
— Adi Shankara
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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
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People in government are self-interested just like people in business.
— David Boaz
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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: