Advanced Search My Account Help

Add the "Dynamic Daily Quotation" to Your Site or Blog - it's Easy!

Quotes with keywords > S > SE > self interest

11-20 Quotations of 30

Self interest quotes

“Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.”
Henri Frederic Amiel quotes (Swiss writer known for his masterpiece Journal intime, 1821-1881)
Similar Quotes.
Add to Chapter...

“Self-interest speaks all sorts of tongues, and plays all sorts of roles, even that of disinterestedness”
François de la Rochefoucauld quotes (French classical author, leading exponent of the Maxime, 1613-1680)

Add to Chapter...

“Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.”
Thomas Jefferson quotes (American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826)
Similar Quotes. About: Morality quotes.
Add to Chapter...

“Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a ''taxing-machine';' to the contented, a ''machine for securing property'.' Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.”
Thomas Carlyle quotes (Scottish Historian and Essayist, leading figure in the Victorian era. 1795-1881)

Add to Chapter...

“We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we now know that it is bad economics.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt quotes (American 32nd US President (1933-45), cousin of Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US president. 1882-1945)
Similar Quotes. About: Economics quotes, Self-interest quotes.
Add to Chapter...

“We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”
Franklin D. Roosevelt quotes (American 32nd US President (1933-45), cousin of Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US president. 1882-1945)

Add to Chapter...

“By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion and morality to reinforce self-interest”
Bertrand Russell quotes (English Logician and Philosopher 1872-1970)
Similar Quotes. About: Self-interest quotes.
Add to Chapter...

“I feel my belief in sacrifice and struggle getting stronger. I despise the kind of existence that clings to the miserly trifles of comfort and self-interest. I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.”
Fidel Castro quotes
Similar Quotes.
Add to Chapter...

“The land of self-interest groans from shore to shore, / For fear that plenty should attain the poor.”
Lord Byron quotes (English Romantic poet and satirist, 1788-1824)

Add to Chapter...

“Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their ''evil'' look at such times is no human projection: the cat may be the only animal who savors the perverse or reflects upon it.”
Camille Paglia quotes
Similar Quotes.
Add to Chapter...

Submit a New Quote with self interest

<< self improvement quotes

self love quotes >>

Find product related with self interest quotes on Amazon

Suggested

> T-Shirt quotes
> funny quotes
> famous quotes
> movie quotes
> sayings
> proverbs
> funny sayings
> Inspirational Quotes
> Cute Quotes
> Friendship Quotes
> Motivational Quotes

ThinkExist.com Quotations
Privacy & Security Policy | Terms of Service | Advertise | About us | Press room | Contact us | Help
Copyright ® ThinkExist 1999-2009