In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.
In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.
The land of self-interest groans from shore to shore, For fear that plenty should attain the poor.
Look, I'm a grown-up, I know people do things out of self-interest and opportunism. I'm going to have to work with people who weren't with me.
For the state by its nature claims sovereignty, the right to an unlimited development of power, determined only by self-interest. It is by nature anarchistic.
We believe ... her story has been motivated by her own self-interest.
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.
The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.
It has always been my favorite Miller play because the politics of the play are deeply embedded in the characters. The ideas of two brothers who embody the viewpoint of selflessness and self-interest is a common and powerful theme of Miller's. It's hard to express how great this play is and how much I believe in it.
We know we've got work to do, but we're finally getting to the point where Worcester has really bought into the Blackstone. It's sort of an enlightened self-interest, and it's incredible.
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.
Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the public mind with further restrictions on just about everyone else's freedom of political speech.
For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest.
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.
If you consider that PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards put together the best financing approach when they announced their original merger, this sub-optimal approach can only be a ploy to preserve management's self-interest,
The jovial party broke up next morning. Breakings-up are capital things in our school-days, but in after life they are painful enough. Death, self-interest, and fortune's changes, are every day breaking up many a happy group, and scattering them far and wide and the boys and girls never come back again.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
Where self-interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellspring of initiative and creativity.
Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
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.
Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
This is partly a function of approval ratings. People pay attention to polls and start saying, 'Lets take a more independent tack.' It is frankly self-interest, self-preservation.
cause greater than self-interest.
My commitment to new politics, to those values will never change, ... One of the things that my supporters and I had in common was that there was not a lot of self-interest. All of this was more important than even the person running for president.
For love of freedom which abates
Beyond the Straits:
For patriot virtue starved to vice on
Self-praise, self-interest, and suspicion:
I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest.
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
We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and self-interest.
The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people to go more and more into self-interest. Even to see other folks as competition.
The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.
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.
Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge.
To be beneficent when we can is a duty and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations.... For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination.
Some of us have turned our freedom into exploitation, our land into a dust bowl. We can't make a nation strong when it is held together by the rotten rope of self-interest. Too often we think of democracy only in terms of getting our rights.
Appeal to something larger than self-interest.
At that time, there was general agreement among everyone involved in women's liberation that women should have a defined sexual self-interest.
It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
More things are left undone through neglect of duty than through neglect of self-interest.
We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.
desires or fears for themselves - their legitimate or illegitimate self-interest.
If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self-interest, you can have practically anything you go after.
My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage.
No one can accuse me of self-interest in all this. You could make a case that a lot of the new rules don't help my game out at all.
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
The positive energy and the overall tone of this event are almost euphoric, ... To have 2,400 people collectively engaged in an act of goodness like this restores one's faith in humanity. Indeed, this demonstrated capacity for altruism challenges the notion that it is always about self-interest.
The world is governed only by self-interest.
There is some self-interest in Europe maintaining good relations with China.
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
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