Ifs Quote by Walter Lippmann

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's…

— Walter Bagehot

Men often act knowingly against their interest.

— David Hume

“Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a number of individuals, any claimed or implied conflict of…

— Ayn Rand

Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Each man does seek his own interest, but, unfortunately, not according to the dictates of reason.

— Kenneth Waltz

“If men were rational, they would take a more correct view of their own interest than they do at present; and if all men…

— Bertrand Russell

It is motive alone that gives real value to the actions of men, and disinterestedness puts the cap to it.

— Jean de la Bruyere

“Though those different plans were, perhaps, first introduced by the private interests and prejudices of particular orders of men, without any regard to, or…

— Adam Smith

The interest of [businessmen] is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public ... The proposal of any…

— Adam Smith

“Having come to a sound egoistic decision by the help of the unconscious, a man proceeds to invent, or adopt from others, a set…

— Bertrand Russell

People who intend only to serve public interest are led by invisible hand to private interest which was no part of their intention.

— Milton Friedman

Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.

— Anonymous