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Self-Interest Quotes

The common class of mankind are actuated by no nobler principle than that of self-interest; this and this alone determines all adventurers in privateers: the owners, as well as those whom they employ.

John Paul Jones

Alone Class Self-Interest Mankind

Too often, complaint is not about principled objection on moral grounds, but opportunistic objection on grounds of self-interest. To rectify this, we need to work on mastering the art of complaint.

Work Art Moral Need Self-Interest

The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Virtue Self-Interest Vices Useful

The cost of leadership is self-interest.

Leadership Cost Self-Interest

Part of diplomacy is to open different definitions of self-interest.

Hillary Clinton

Open Diplomacy Self-Interest Part

It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men.

Men Defend Self-Interest Been

Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?

Milton Friedman

Political True Self-Interest Economic

We need leaders who appeal to us to think about something other than narrow self-interest but instead focus upon the greater good.

Good Focus Think Need Self-Interest

The only thing I find interesting is self-interest.

Interesting Find Self-Interest Only

Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

Charles Baudelaire

Nature Voice Nothing Self-Interest

I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.

I Am Out Self-Interest Cynical Am

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Sea Lost Self-Interest Rivers

We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Hope World Will Spirit Self-Interest

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Enemy True Affection Self-Interest

It's overwhelmingly in the self-interest of the United States of America to have a secure, democratic friend, a strategic partner like Israel.

Friend Partner America Self-Interest

I think most people act in their self-interest.

Aubrey McClendon

People Think Self-Interest Act Most

That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Good Self-Interest Being Tender Most

A society that is all self-interest and no comradeship is not a society at all. But a society that is all comradeship and no self-interest is also not a society; it is a sect - or, on the largest scale, totalitarianism.

Meir Soloveichik

Society Self-Interest Scale Also

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

Wisdom Self-Interest Even Yield

The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Name Virtue Real Self-Interest Vices

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