“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
“Single mothers have as much to teach their children as married mothers and as much love to share--maybe more. Yet their motives are often labeled selfish and single-minded--never mind all the babies brought into the world to snag husbands, "save" faltering marriages or produce heirs.” WorldMindChildrenMotherTeachShareProduceBabyHusbandMarriedSelfishMotiveHeirsMuch LoveSingle MotherFaltering Author:Anne Cassidy
“Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, andhave an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual. Their cultivation is local, as if you should rub a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire, all the rest remaining cold.” IfsShouldPersonsSoulBeautifulFireProduceColdTasteFairsCriticismWoodsSelfishLocalsSpotsSensualDryElegantSculptureInclinationUmpiresCultivationBeautiful Soul Book:The Portable Emerson: New Edition Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition
“Ideas that spread win. Ideas don't have to be selfish to win, in fact, it turns out that the more generous the interactions an idea produces, the more likely it is to spread.” IdeasFactsTurnsWinningProduceSpreadSelfishGenerousInteractionBeing Selfish Author:Seth
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious, or less avaricious than aristocracy or monarchy. It is not true, in fact, and nowhere appears in history. Those passions are the same in all men, under all forms of simple government, and when unchecked, produce the same effects of fraud, violence, and cruelty.” MenLongFactsGovernmentLastsRememberFormPassionSimpleDemocracyViolenceEffectsProduceProudWasteMurderSuicideSelfishCommitCrueltyVainFraudAmbitiousMonarchySuitableAristocracyDemocracies HaveViolence And Cruelty Author:John Adams
“In some cases there are ways of thinking about what an architectural program produces - interior and exterior - that is not necessarily directed by an economic requirement, but is a diagram based on human actions, selfish or otherwise.” ThinkingWayHumansActionCasesEconomicProduceProgramSelfishRequirementsInteriorsWay Of ThinkingExteriorHuman ActionsDiagrams Author:Jimenez Lai
“Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for generations that capitalism and the free market, not the welfare state, produces selfish people.” PeopleHas BeensStatesLeftGenerationsMediaProduceCapitalismUniversitySelfishWelfareFree MarketMantrasWelfare StateSelfish People Author:Dennis Prager