Acceptance Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and…

— Carl Jung

“Rational self-interest is always what morality boils down to.”

— Rebecca Goldstein

One should make morals judgements for oneself.

— Kathryn Bigelow

The basic of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Morality, after all, has nothing to do with selflessness. On the contrary, self-interest is precisely the basis of the categorical imperative.

— Frans de Waal

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

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.

— Thomas Jefferson

We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.

— Anonymous

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

Whenever there is a conflict between universal principles and self-interest, self-interest is likely to prevail.

— George Soros

Morals exist in those who understand the gift of life.

— Jasmina Siderovski

“In a real sense, our beliefs dictate our behavior. A theory underlies our every moral action. We may not be able to articulate that…

— R.C. Sproul