“When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere. Then only can he see that what is unpleasant to us is no”
Rabindranath Tagore
“People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.”
Thomas S. Szasz
“Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.”
George Bernard Shaw
“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
“Deny Self for Self's sake”
Benjamin Franklin
“We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we now know that it is bad economics.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.”
