Definition of Self-Interest
Self-Interest Quotations
Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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.
John Steinbeck
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
Chanakya
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
Milton Friedman
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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.
Gerald R. Ford
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Self-Interest Translations
self-interest in Swedish is egennytta
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