Direct Quote by Corliss Lamont

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

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

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,…

— Herman E. Daly

Social cognitive theory rejects the dichotomous conception of self as agent and self as object. Acting on the environment and acting on oneself entail…

— Albert Bandura

“People with power do not regulate their behavior as much. They become egocentric and preoccupied with their own self-interest, which eclipses their awareness of…

— Dean M. Schroeder

Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive

— Samuel Johnson

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Self-interest is an inexhaustible source of convenient illusions. The number of beings who wish to see truly is extraordinarily small.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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

People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.

— John Stossel

“What we traditionally call ‘selfish tendencies’ is only a narrow interpretation of what self-serving behaviour entails, wherein human characteristics are perceived through the flawed…

— Athene's Theory of Everything

Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves.

— Hayao Miyazaki