Self Interest – Quotes

What is required from

What is required from members of Congress and the public alike is a new spirit of devotion to the national welfare beyond party or self-interest. Evan Bayh

Redtail was a brave warrior. His loyalty to ThunderClan could never be doubted. I always relied on his judgment, for it bore witness to the needs of the Clan, and was never swayed by self-interest or pride. He would have made a fine leader. Erin Hunter

I understand that unless

I understand that unless you have a government of laws, rather than a government of people, you cannot protect dissent. And I understand, as a woman who probably would have been burned in the marketplace for witchcraft only about 200 years ago, that I need the First Amendment more than anybody does. And that even … Read more

Prejudice and passion and

Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights. Elihu Root

It\\’s a civic virtue

It’s a civic virtue to be exposed to things that appear to be outside your interest. In a complex world, almost everything affects you – that closes the loop on pecuniary self-interest. Customers are always right, but people aren’t. Eli Pariser

Democracy actually requires that

Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of narrow self-interest to do so. Eli Pariser

Human service is the

Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves. Elbert Hubbard

What guided Chaplin was

What guided Chaplin was the proper protection of self-interest (or craziness). So Chapling, Douglas Fairbanks, and Mark Pickford, with DW Griffith and William S Hart, made an alliance, called United Artists, whereby they would own a distribution company that would market their pictures, allowing them a greater return than if they leased the movies to … Read more

The ruin of the

The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts -the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria -are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy. Edward Dahlberg

An independent Ireland would

An independent Ireland would see its own independence in jeopardy the moment it saw the independence of Britain seriously threatened. Mutual self-interest would make the peoples of these two islands, if both independent, the closest possible allies in a moment of real national danger to either. Eamon de Valera