Self-interest Quotes

Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.

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.

We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.

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

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

It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to call it American self-interest.

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

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