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Self-Interest Quotes

Franklin D. Roosevelt quote: "Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection."
Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Francois de La Rochefoucauld quote: "Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted."
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Henri Frederic Amiel quote: "Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us...."
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender. Henri Frederic Amiel
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest? . . . And just tell me where in the world you find these angels who are going to organize society for us. Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman quote: "Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler..."
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest? Milton Friedman
Chanakya quote: "There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is..."
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth. Chanakya
Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtue, not vices. It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear. Alan Greenspan
Trust a witness in all matters in which neither his self-interest, his passions, his prejudices, nor the love of the marvellous is strongly concerned. When they are involved, require corroborative evidence in exact proportion to the contravention of probability by the thing testified. Thomas Huxley
What makes us want to know the worst? Is it that we tire of preferring to know the best? Does curiosity always hurdle self-interest? Or is it, more simply, that wanting to know the worst is love's favorite perversion. Julian Barnes
Georges Bataille quote: "The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth..."
The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest. Georges Bataille
Is it possible really to love other people? If I’m lonely and in pain, everyone outside me is potential relief—I need them. But can you really love what you need so badly? Isn’t a big part of love caring more about what the other person needs? How am I supposed to subordinate my own overwhelming need to somebody else’s needs that I can’t even feel directly? And yet if I can’t do this, I’m damned to loneliness, which I definitely don’t want … so I’m back at trying to overcome my selfishness... David Foster Wallace
Love is by definition an unmerited gift; being loved without meriting it is the very proof of real love. If a woman tells me: I love you because you're intelligent, because you're decent, because you buy me gifts, because you don't chase women, because you do the dishes, then I'm disappointed; such love seems a rather self-interested business. How much finer it is to hear: I'm crazy about you even though you're neither intelligent nor decent, even though you're a liar, an egotist, a bastard. Milan Kundera
Octavia Butler quote: "Beware. At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened..."
Beware. At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest. Than of any other disease Octavia Butler
We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives. William Hazlitt
Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one. Dean Koontz

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