Quotes About Self-interest

Once we had the Protestant ascendancy,' Cor Mogaill said. 'Now it's the Catholic ascendancy. And they both rule with the same mixture of self-interest and cynicism.

Every discussion which is made from an egoistic standpoint is corrupted from the start and cannot yield an absolutely sure conclusion. The ego puts its own interest first and twists every argument, word, even fact to suit that interest.

It's pointless to blame someone for being themselves and looking to their own interests.

Our prejudices and self-interest shape the world into what we want it to be, or fear it is.

Psychologisch beschouwd is het juister de verklaring voor het huidige profitariaat en individualisme te zoeken in een maatschappij die mensen opvoedt om steeds hun eigen voordeel na te streven, los van en desnoods ten koste van de ander. 'Je leeft maar één keer.

I had a harder time with this dishonesty, because it seemed to speak of something larger. The way he was always out for himself, whatever the cost.

Emotional neglect, alone, causes children to abandon themselves, and to give up on the formation of a self. They do so to preserve an illusion of connection with the parent and to protect themselves from the danger of losing that tenuous connection. This typically requires a great deal of self-abdication, e.g., the forfeiture of self-esteem, self-confidence, self-care, self-interest, and self-protection.

The essential challenge is to transform the isolation and self-interest within our communities into connectedness and caring for the whole.

None of this is ever going to change until each of us changes. The change has to come from us, and the object of that change is us. We have to change our hearts. And we have to change our minds. We have to stop thinking in terms of stereotypes and deal with people as people. We have to stop thinking in terms of narrow self-interest and begin to reclaim the idea of the common good.