Selfish Interest Quotes

#1. Inflammatory passion and selfish interest characterizes most men, whereas ambition characterizes men who pursue and hold national office. Such men rise from the people through a process of self-selection, since politics is a dirty business that discourages all but the most ambitious.

Tom Cotton

#2. Expecting people to follow rules just because they should is being too hopeful. Rules must be designed to dovetail with selfish interest because people are primarily driven by it. They need to be shepherded into good behaviour through this proclivity.

Amish Tripathi

#3. Any practice of business which would dominate the country by its own selfish interest is a destruction of equality of opportunity. Government in business, except in emergency, is also a destruction of equal opportunity and the incarnation of tyranny through bureaucracy.

Herbert Hoover

#4. The Buddha's teaching leads us to the realization that we must always strive to harm no sentient being, human or nonhuman, whether or not it is in our selfish interest to do so.

Norm Phelps

#5. We know that there are chiselers. At the bottom of every case of criticism and obstruction we have found some selfish interest, some private axe to grind.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#6. As long as there is (worldly) selfish interest, there is no unity. Unity is attained with the ultimate intent of the Self [the intent of attaining self-realization, liberation].

Dada Bhagwan

#7. The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.

Frances Wright

#8. Business is a very beautiful mechanism to solve problems, but we never use it for that purpose. We only use it to make money. It satisfies our selfish interest but not our collective interest.

Muhammad Yunus

#9. In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.

George Bernard Shaw

#10. Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person.

Pope John Paul II

#11. When I was living in China, I learned to make things hyper-explicit because often they were being read by people whose command of English kept them from picking up what I thought were obvious signals.

James Fallows

#12. Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.

Thomas Sowell

#13. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Henry David Thoreau

#14. Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification.

C.J. Mahaney

#15. How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.

Adam Smith

#16. We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.

William Hazlitt

#17. Check that - I've found the end. Nick, please be kind enough to withdraw your head to a reasonable distance from my hindquarters.'
-Ajay

Mark Frost

#18. This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex.

Dan Rather

#19. I like to be sort of grounded with Fish. But, at the same time, I think probably what's unique about us is the way other dynamics happen, where I'll play off Trey for awhile. When we start playing a jam, I don't usually know what's going to happen, I don't have a plan.

Mike Gordon

#20. Each man seeks his own interest, not the general interest. Let his own selfish interests be touched, and all concord is at an end.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#21. Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.

William Sloane Coffin

#22. To recognize what is absurd and to accept it need not dim the eye for the tragic side of existence; quite on the contrary, in the end it may perhaps help in gaining a more tolerant view of the world.

Gregor Von Rezzori

#23. We have the ability to provide clean water for every man, woman and child on the Earth. What has been lacking is the collective will to accomplish this. What are we waiting for? This is the commitment we need to make to the world, now.

Jean-Michel Cousteau

#24. A free society that allows each individual to seek his or her own selfish ends (without deliberately trying to harm anyone else) will produce a state in which everyone's interest is optimized without any individual knowing in advance what that state might be.

Stuart Kauffman

#25. Those who make hostility a daily manner are often left in the lurch at difficult times.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#26. Anybody who's ever mattered, anybody who's ever been happy, anybody who's ever given any gift into the world has been a divinely selfish soul, living for his own best interest. No exceptions.

Richard Bach

#27. There is nothing wrong in being selfish provided you know where your self interest are. Once you start meditating regularly you will come to a stage where you will realize that selfish action are those which brings peace and welfare to all and not only for yourself.

Subodh Gupta

#28. Betrayal is advancing myself at the expense of the one who I committed myself to advance.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#29. Money appears to motivate only our interest in ourselves, making us selfish and self-centered ... Money makes people feel self-sufficient, which also means they don't need or care about others; it's each man for himself

Margaret Heffernan

#30. Advertising is the place where the selfish interests of the manufacturer coincide with the interests of society.

David Ogilvy

#31. Do not agonize about yesterday. Do not borrow tomorrow's trouble. Let your heart hunt. Rest in the now.

Robin Hobb

#32. I don't make personal abuse against anybody, I don't mind personal remarks.

Jeremy Corbyn

#33. Unresolved issues from childhood revisit us in adulthood.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#34. We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

J.K. Rowling

#35. A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public interest.

Benjamin Butler

#36. Trafficante celebrated in a Tampa restaurant with his lawyer, Ragano. "We'll make

Sal Polisi

#37. She's very selfish. Not exactly self-centered, but totally indifferent to everyone and everything. Don't you agree?'
'I don't think that's possible,' said Mr Satterthwaite, slowly. 'I mean everyone's interest must go somewhere.

Agatha Christie

#38. because I know I would do the best job. Maybe the only thing that's important to you is money, but that matters the least to me. Leaders care about the common good, not the self-interest of one selfish man.

E.L. Todd