Creativity Quote by P. J. O'Rourke

Where self-interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellsprings of initiative and creativity.

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

More things are left undone through neglect of duty than through neglect of self-interest.

— Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

Like all predatory or parasitic institutions, its first instinct is that of self-preservation. All its enterprises are directed first towards preserving its own life,…

— Albert J. Nock

“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

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

Society at present suffers far more from waste of money than from want of it. There is dignity in every attempt to economise. It…

— Morarji Desai

“Self-seeking is self-destruction”

— James Allen

The instinct of self-preservation in human society, acting almost subconsciously, as do all drives in the human mind, is rebelling against the constantly refined…

— Bertha von Suttner

“Such sudden respectability for undisciplined self-interest is one of the most surprising developments of the last three decades. It seems to indicate just how…

— John Ralston Saul

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

— Baruch Spinoza

Through care taken over trends, the desire to be novel and affectation knowledge, we repudiate our art, our instinct, our own way of doing…

— Giuseppe Verdi