Actually Quote by George Packer

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

Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be…

— Beau Willimon

Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?

— Milton Friedman

self-interest usually brings injustice with it.

— Catherine the Great

“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

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

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Everyone's politics are born of self-interest, particularly around sexuality. We just have to own up to that.

— Melissa Gira Grant

Self-interest, to be sure, is one of the most important, but we have many other motives - honesty, self-respect, altruism, love, sympathy, faith, sense…

— Ha-Joon Chang

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

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

You are One with everything. When you are clear about this, your definition of self-interest will change.

— Neale Donald Walsch

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

— Henri Frederic Amiel