Identity Quote by Jack L. Chalker

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

— George Soros

“No sort of activity is likely to be lasting if it is not founded on self-interest, that's a universal principle, a philosophical principle”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Man's ability to think rationally when self-interest was at stake was inversely proportional to intelligence. - Aune”

— Jo Nesbø

“Society remains unflagging in its almost pathological pursuit of material self-interest.”

— William Marsden

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

“the capital commandments of self-interest, self-importance, self-enrichment, and self-perpetuation.”

— Mark Leibovich

“THE HUMAN COMMUNITY has reached a critical point in its history. The world today forces us to accept that humanity is one. In the…

— Dalai Lama XIV

“If you held to principle so passionately, so inflexibly, indifferent in the particulars of circumstance - the full range of what human beings, with…

— Sonia Sotomayor

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

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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

— John Stossel

“So the people--humanity or the family--have up to now, as it seems, played history: no egoistic interest was supposed to arise in these societies,…

— Max Stirner

“to pursue your own interests is prudent; to pursue the public interest as well is pious; but to pursue your own pleasure by depriving…

— Thomas More