Self Interest Quotes
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Self-interest lies behind all that men do, forming the important motive for all their actions; this rule has never deceived me
— Marquis De Sade
Leases, writes, statutes, all are written to be read and each person reads them by the light of self-interest.
— Hilary Mantel
Scientists have long known that Darwinism is false. They have adhered to the myth out of self-interest and a zealous desire to put down God.
— Phillip E. Johnson
Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease
— Octavia Butler
We do not like to praise, and seldom praise anyone without self-interest.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.
— William Sloane Coffin
Part of diplomacy is to open different definitions of self-interest.
— Hillary Clinton
The only thing I find interesting is self-interest.
— Claire Denis
We are moved by self-interest, even when we seek to do good to others.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
Those who make hostility a daily manner are often left in the lurch at difficult times.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among the Holy Saints.
— Honore De Balzac
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
Society remains unflagging in its almost pathological pursuit of material self-interest.
— William Marsden
I think most people act in their self-interest.
— Aubrey McClendon
A great feat of engineering is an object of perpetual interest to people bent on self-destruction
— Michael Chabon
How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?
— H. Rider Haggard
I'd like to lose interest in myself ...
— Don DeLillo
The cost of leadership," explains Lieutenant General George Flynn of the United States Marine Corps, "is self-interest.
— Simon Sinek
We have an infinite capacity for self interest, yet the infinite has absolutely no interest in us
— Dean Cavanagh
Morality, after all, has nothing to do with selflessness. On the contrary, self-interest is precisely the basis of the categorical imperative.
— Frans De Waal
Rational self-interest is always what morality boils down to.
— Rebecca Goldstein
Moral decisions are always easy to recognize," Odrade said. "They are where you abandon self-interest.
— Frank Herbert
Nonconformity is nothing but self-interest in disguise.
— Lisa Kleypas
You are One with everything. When you are clear about this, your definition of self-interest will change.
— Neale Donald Walsch
Writing journal is for those people who find no interest in living a life of victimhood and limited personal freedom.
— Deepak Burfiwala
Successful organizing is not built on self-interest but rather on dignity and a sense of purpose.
— Paul Wellstone
God is not interested in your ability. He isinterested in your availability. When you avail
your ability to God, you become a faithful leader. — Israelmore Ayivor
For the world is only governed by self-interest.
— Friedrich Schiller
Self interest feeds more people than self sacrifice.
— James Cook
The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.
— Peter Watts
Unless people have a vision of something beyond the bounds of their own natures, they cannot transcend their self-interest.
— Patrick M. Garry
Unchecked power, driven by self-interest, scarcity, grandiosity and aggression, is deadly to God's original fruitful purposes.
— Andy Crouch
It is when you start to have the interest of people in your heart that when you start to make a change.
— Peter Adejimi
It's to your best interest to be patient with your REAL self as you nurture it back into existence." ~ Linda Deir
— Linda Deir
I see no clear reason why the doctrine of self-interest properly understood should turn men away from religious beliefs.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.
— Thomas Jefferson
Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
We must forget ourselves and all self-interest, and listen, and be attentive to God.
— Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
Some are interested in the mysterious, but lose interest once they think they know you.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
How much would every marriage change if we pursued absolute benevolence over our own comfort, happiness, and self-interest?
— Gary Thomas
56. Manifest plainness and embrace the genuine; lessen self-interest and make few your desires.
— Lao-Tzu
Self-interest, be it enlightened, works indirectly for the public good.
— William H. Prescott
It's human; we all put self interest first.
— Euripides
In the business world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes, governed by self interest.
— Harold Geneen
A keener interest in trinkets of self-adornment than in people is a symptom of alienation.
— Kobo Abe
Memory extends as far as our self-interest.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.
— Jonathan Kozol
In the world union, prosperity is a science, self-interest a new religion, peace is at hand and the future has never looked brighter.
— B. Barmanbek
It is proper for people to have friends, friendships without self-interest. Without friends, life is too lonely.
— Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Never appeal to a man's 'better nature.' He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.
— Robert A. Heinlein
The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle.
— John Galt
The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.
— Georges Bataille
Koch's youthful idealism about libertarianism had largely devolved into a rationale for corporate self-interest.
— John Charles Chasteen
Loyalty is in most people only a ruse used by self-interest to attract confidence.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Self-interest speaks all manner of tongues and plays all manner of parts, even that of disinterestedness.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
My main life lesson from investing: self-interest is the most powerful force on earth, and can get people to embrace and defend almost anything.
— Jesse Lauriston Livermore
Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.
— William Howard Taft
Do you want to be super successful? Never appeal to people's mercy or gratitude ... Appeal only to their self-interest & see the results
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
A just cause should need no interpretation yet flounders when confronted by self- interest and corruption.
— Peter Dunne
Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral.
— Gore Vidal
The secret to happiness is short-term, stupid self-interest!
— Bill Watterson
Self interest determines loyalty or betrayal.
— James Cook
Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Freedom is choice to follow your own dreams.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
— Arnold Bennett
In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.
— Orson Scott Card
The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
— Carlos Fuentes
There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Politicians look for interests not people
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
The priority list is: 1. The Strength Group 2. Moral Self-Interest 3. Moral Nurturance It
— George Lakoff
Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.
— John Osborne
The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.
— Gough Whitlam
Betrayal is advancing myself at the expense of the one who I committed myself to advance.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Ordinarily, everything we do is in our self-interest. Everything.
— Anthony De Mello
Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
