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
Related Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of m... THOMAS JEFFERSON Just as God, above all, is free of every need and self-interest, the spiritual man who has the Spiri... JOHN ROMANIDES A man lives with an interest in life to crave for like of others for self-love only, but if he raves... ANUJ SOMANY Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest PINDAR Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW In the world union, prosperity is a science, self-interest a new religion, peace is at hand and the ... B. BARMANBEK Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surren... HENRI AMIEL Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surren... HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL The basis of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. In other word... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS We have an infinite capacity for self interest, yet the infinite has absolutely no interest in us DEAN CAVANAGH We believe ... her story has been motivated by her own self-interest. BILL THOMAS A man lives with an interest in life to crave for others’ like on him for self-love only, but if h... ANUJ SOMANY A man's interest in the world is only the overflow of his interest in himself GEORGE BERNARD SHAW We believe ... her story has been motivated by her own self-interest. I think that a jury will ultim... BILL THOMAS Entrepreneurship is the use of self-interest in the service of others. Politics is the use of others... JAKUB BOżYDAR WIśNIEWSKI Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest. CHARLES BAUDELAIRE The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest gr... GINNY BROWN-WAITE When the healthy pursuit of self-interest and self-realization turns into self-absorption, other peo... P.M. FORNI What we call personality (...) has become the most impersonal thing in the world. Its pale and featu... G. K. CHESTERTON If you have no interest without self-interest, you are doing your work, your job. If you have intere... APURVA GAGLANI Those two have a mutual self-interest in being buddies. Bush has always delivered on Kenneth Lay's p... CRAIG MCDONALD Man by nature is a selfish being because, he has been imbued by nature to think of self alone. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) When self interest and community need conflict, let the greater good guide you. JIM GENOVESE Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT A man becomes a scholar by the help of self-study and proper analysis of whatever he has studied. RIG VEDA We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we now know that it is bad economic... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We are moved by self-interest, even when we seek to do good to others. BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA When a man owns the tin, he has a vested interest in it. JAY L. TUROFF He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained fai... ANTHONY POWELL Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself m... GORE VIDAL Interest in the pseudo-sciences has become extraordinary. GERHARD HERZBERG Love is always based on self-interest BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken o... THOMAS SZASZ The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self... GOUGH WHITLAM My first research was concerned with propagation of radiation through inhomogeneous transparent medi... ANTONY HEWISH It is in your self-interest to find a way to be very tender. JENNY HOLZER The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest NAPOLEON BONAPARTE I think most people act in their self-interest. AUBREY MCCLENDON A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once m... THOMAS MANN Men are moved by only two things: fear and self-interest. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions. D. H. LAWRENCE If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient liv... ARNOLD BENNETT Anybody who does not evolve can become a self-parody. I have to evolve on a daily basis just to keep... MARILYN MANSON Science is interesting... Albert Eistein has said that he believe in religion, and he has said "Scie... DEYTH BANGER If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient liv... ARNOLD BENNETT Bush wants to prove that he has no interest in the Iraqi oil by doing what he did to Iraq. LABIB KAMHAWI Sectarianism has become a self-fulfilling prophecy, ROSEMARY HOLLIS He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becom... MENCIUS He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becom... MENCIUS Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We need leaders who appeal to us to think about something other than narrow self-interest but instea... EVAN BAYH Self-interest, fear of physical pain, drove him to that grotesque act of self-abasement. Its insince... ANTHONY BURGESS A man limits his abilities himself according to his created interest, and then he pays very little a... FAISAL NAWAZ MAITLO Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even th... BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way. CARL SANDBERG Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest? . . . ... MILTON FRIEDMAN The self is best served in the interest of the whole. MICHAEL SHRAMEK If he has interest in playing for us next season, we will have interest in him. BILL BAVASI If we only give up something to God because we want more back, there is nothing of the Holy Spirit i... OSWALD CHAMBERS People tend to like a person’s thought or an online post with the same intensity of intention and ... ANUJ SOMANY As usual, national self-interest dominated, but at least the whole process wasn't derailed. DALE MARSHALL Writing ‘The GREAT’ along with own name is in itself the confession of being a self-interested p... ANUJ SOMANY Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations. RABINDRANATH TAGORE People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something o... THOMAS S. SZASZ The name of the game is taking care of yourself, because you're going to live long enough to wish yo... GRACE MIRABELLA If I have to choose between you and me - I like me better. CHARLAINE HARRIS Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to... CHARLOTTE BRONTE The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self ... EDWARD T. HALL The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from i... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to a... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to a... CHARLOTTE BRONTE My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlighten... GERALD R. FORD Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, "Good luck!" and those who... ETHEL BARRYMORE Deny Self for Self's sake BENJAMIN FRANKLIN It was all self-interest. Some who would have voted for the band instruments and uniforms wanted not... WARREN SHERMAN We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest. ATAL BIHARI VAJPAYEE That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self... FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The One whose body, mind and speech become saiyamit (under his control), He Himself has become the a... DADA BHAGWAN Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life JAMES F. BYRNES When in doubt, reinforce your self-trust. LAURIE NADEL Because Great Britain has self-confidence, it doesn't need a monumental Olympics. AI WEIWEI Part of diplomacy is to open different definitions of self-interest. HILLARY CLINTON My interest lies in my self-expression -- what's inside of me -- not what I'm in. JOHN TURTURRO I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way. CARL SANDBURG In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intell... ORSON SCOTT CARD Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. JAMES F. BYRNES Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest. ABRAHAM LINCOLN Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self interest ABRAHAM LINCOLN Curran's whore comes to visit us," Jarek said in accented English. The three men laughed ... ILONA ANDREWS Through self-education, you can gain knowledge in any field of interest SUNDAY ADELAJA Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love... AARON COHEN We know we've got work to do, but we're finally getting to the point where Worcester has really boug... STEPHEN BISHOP Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence is he truly... VIKTOR FRANKL Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he trul... VICTOR FRANKL The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or h... ORISON SWETT MARDEN The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest fo... CARLOS FUENTES No citizen is apolitical; as a citizen, by definition, has to take interest in public affairs. MOHAMMAD HAMID ANSARI
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BERTRAND RUSSELL There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast abou... BERTRAND RUSSELL Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard suc... BERTRAND RUSSELL For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as som... BERTRAND RUSSELL I cannot be content with a brief moment of riotous living followed by destitution, and however cleve... BERTRAND RUSSELL ...The universe is just there, and that's all. BERTRAND RUSSELL The desire for excitement is very deep-seated in human beings, eI was a solitary, shy, priggish yout... BERTRAND RUSSELL Is man what he seems to the astronomer, a tiny lump of impure carbon and water impotently crawling o... BERTRAND RUSSELL To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of perso... BERTRAND RUSSELL نحن بحاجة إلى التخفيف من عقدة "الأعداء الأشرار"، والمزي... BERTRAND RUSSELL The difficulty is that, so long as unreason prevails, a solution of our troubles can only be reached... BERTRAND RUSSELL The affection of parents makes infants feel safe in this dangerous world, and gives them boldness in... BERTRAND RUSSELL This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance we... BERTRAND RUSSELL The root of the matter… the thing I mean… is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel th... BERTRAND RUSSELL Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege... BERTRAND RUSSELL One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked abo... BERTRAND RUSSELL In the outworks of our lives, we were almost strangers, but we shared a certain outlook on human lif... BERTRAND RUSSELL If [a man] spent his money, say, in giving parties for his friends, they (we may hope) would get ple... BERTRAND RUSSELL تنقسم السعاده الى نوعين وهناك درجات تتفاوت يها والنوعي... BERTRAND RUSSELL Very many people spend money in ways quite different from those that their natural tastes would enjo... BERTRAND RUSSELL A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that t... BERTRAND RUSSELL If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect ... BERTRAND RUSSELL We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that... BERTRAND RUSSELL My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend ... BERTRAND RUSSELL Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. BERTRAND RUSSELL There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life w... BERTRAND RUSSELL To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observatio... BERTRAND RUSSELL Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously. BERTRAND RUSSELL The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but... BERTRAND RUSSELL Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can ... BERTRAND RUSSELL The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times h... BERTRAND RUSSELL