Identity Quote by Catherine the Great Download Open image “self-interest usually brings injustice with it.” — Catherine the Great ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Identity Injustice Interest Justice Self Self importance Self interest
Self-interest is the most ingenious and persuasive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, while by means of it our unhappy and stubborn… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The scientist seeking… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“If you press people to identify the motives behind their self-interest it usually boils down to four items: money, power, status, and popularity.” — Marshall Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I actually think that self-interest is overrated as an all-purpose guide to political motive. It leaves out something at least as powerful and immovable… — George Packer Copy Share Image
You are One with everything. When you are clear about this, your definition of self-interest will change. — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
We cannot doubt that self-interest is the mainspring of human nature. It must be clearly understood that this word is used here to designate… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Self-interest is an inexhaustible source of convenient illusions. The number of beings who wish to see truly is extraordinarily small. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world. — John Stossel Copy Share Image
There is no self-interest completely unrelated to others' interests. Due to the fundamental interconnectedness which lies at the heart of reality, your interest is… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his. — Catherine the Great Copy Share Image
If I may venture to be frank I would say about myself that I was every inch a gentleman. — Catherine the Great Copy Share Image
In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions. — Catherine the Great Copy Share Image
What right can give anyone authority to inflict torture upon a citizen when it is still unknown whether he is innocent or guilty? — Catherine the Great Copy Share Image
I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at… — Catherine the Great Copy Share Image
The trouble is that my heart is loath to be without love even for a single hour. ... If you want to keep me… — Catherine the Great Copy Share Image
All or nothing. If I commit myself to you, you must commit yourself to me! — Catherine The Great Copy Share Image
Any man who doesn't partake in cigar smoking is nothing more than a weak-willed, meandering oaf, and I would never put my lips to… — Catherine the Great Copy Share Image
the title of Queen rang sweet to my ears, child though I was. ... This idea of a crown began running in my head… — Catherine the Great Copy Share Image
I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster. — Catherine the Great Copy Share Image
I don't doubt that straight white men have identity issues and identity complexes and struggle with defining themselves. — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
I think the next 50 years are going to present the human race with challenges that so far exceed the limitations of geopolitical boundaries… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
You have expressive nationalism, I mean very identity driven, which shaped each other a lot of that in the Middle East. — Subrahmanyam Jaishankar Copy Share Image
I think everybody, or the great majority of human beings, have this aspiration to become other: to live a different identity, at least for… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political life. We… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“In the worldly life, due to maadakta (intoxication of the ego of ‘I am Chandubhai’), one has completely lost awareness of everything about one’s… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“At the moment, then, of Man’s victory over Nature, we find the whole human race subjected to some individual men, and those individuals subjected… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that could simply… — Sharon Maas Copy Share Image
