Quotes About Self-interest

Some people have found that health is more valuable than wealth. Climbing the ladder of self-interest.

The corrupt leader does not care about the morals or ethics of life. His senses have been blinded by greed and self-interest.

The only disadvantage of life is to come in contact with someone who does not know when and how to put their self-interest behind the closed doors.

There is a touch of selfishness in everyone. Everyone wants only the best for themselves, in this world or in the hereafter.

We are constantly haunted by the qualities of self-interest and that is why we struggle to refrain ourselves from making fools of our behaviours.

Your definition of heaven lies wherever your self-interest and happiness dwells.

Today as well we have a large unbalanced electorate that is regularly convinced to vote against its collective self-interest. These people are told that East Coast college professors brainwash the young and that Hollywood liberals make fun of them and have nothing in common with them and hate America and wish to impose an abhorrent, godless lifestyle.

In "My Adventures in the Ozone Layer," he cast the scientific community as dominated by self-interest. "It's not difficult to understand some of the motivations behind the drive to regulate CFCs out of existence," he wrote. "For scientists: prestige, more grants for research, press conferences, and newspaper stories. Also the feeling that maybe they are saving the world for future generations."69 (As if saving the world would be a bad thing!)

The doctrine of laissez-faire capitalism holds that the common good is best served by the uninhibited pursuit of self-interest,"36 Soros wrote. Like its bête noire, Marxism, laissez-faire economics claimed to be scientific, based upon immutable laws of nature, and also like Marxism, it has not stood the test of experience. If it were a scientific theory, it would have long ago been rejected.

The billionaire investor George Soros has coined a term to describe this perspective: "free market fundamentalism." It is the belief not simply that free markets are the best way to run an economic system, but that free markets are the only way that will not ultimately destroy our other freedoms. "The doctrine of laissez-faire capitalism holds that the common good is best served by the uninhibited pursuit of self-interest,"36 Soros wrote.

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

A cowardly act! What do I care about that? You may be sure that I should never fear to commit one if it were to my advantage.

Objectivism comes on, sometimes, as if the most important issue you have to understand is the issue of egoism versus altruism. But thats nowhere near the beginning of the process.

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

Blue believes the harmony to be motivated by self-interest. There is a resurgence of faith these days, a growing belief in organized religion, grace, damnation, heaven and hell. People treat each other kindly now, thinks Blue, because they hope to escape God's wrath. Blue does not believe in damnation and has trouble empathizing with those who do. In her fifty-two years, she has found no hard evidence, no scientific proof to convince her of God's existence. She considers herself an atheist.

Beware: At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease.

More people die           Of unenlightened self-interest           Than of any other disease.

I imagined the United States becoming, slowly, through the combined effects of lack of foresight and short-term unenlightened self-interest, a third world country.

The most evil creatures dont desire the destruction of everythingthey only desire to exploit it for themselves.

No sin is worse than the sin of self-pity, because it obliterates God and puts self-interest upon the throne.

When the healthy pursuit of self-interest and self-realization turns into self-absorption, other people can lose their intrinsic value in our eyes and become mere means to the fulfillment of our needs and desires.

Contra Hobbes and Locke, Rousseau refused to believe that the obligations to civil society could be derived from self-interest, the preservation of life or the enjoyment of private property. For socialized human beings were prone to deceive and to exploit others while pretending to be public-spirited.

and by acting in her own best interests she relieves her feelings of inadequacy and regains her natural State of Personal Power.

Unless people have a vision of something beyond the bounds of their own natures, they cannot transcend their self-interest.