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«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.»
Author: John Perry Barlow
| About:
Ethics,
Identity
| Keywords:
coercion, commonweal, emerge, enlightened, governance, identities, physical body, self interest
«The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.»
«Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.»
«The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression»
Author: Felix Frankfurter
(Jurist)
| Keywords:
admirable, dynamo, dynamos, economic system, self interest
«Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.»
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
Affection,
Self-interest
| Keywords:
self interest
«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.»
Author: Gerald R. Ford
(President, Vice President)
| Keywords:
enlightened, heritage, honors, self interest
«Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.»
«There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.»
«The land of self-interest groans from shore to shore, / For fear that plenty should attain the poor.»
«Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Morality
| Keywords:
egoism, plausibly, self interest, self love, substituted
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