“The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted.” BeliefEnergyDisciplineSelfishGenerosityUnhappinessSelflessMisguided Author:Gretchen Rubin
“Sociotropic voters with biased economic beliefs are more likely to produce severe political failures than are selfish voters with rational expectations.” PoliticalBeliefEconomicProduceExpectationsSelfishRationalVotersSevereBiased Author:Bryan Caplan
“The perception of the West as mostly a "knight of democracy" has been replaced with the disappointed belief that pragmatism, often cynical and selfish, lies at the core of Western policies. For many Russians it was a grave disillusion, a crushing of ideals.” Has BeensLyingBeliefDemocracyPolicyPerceptionIdealsWestWesternSelfishCoreGravesCrushDisappointedCynicalReplacedKnightsDemocracies HavePragmatismDisillusion Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn