Robert A. Heinlein Quotes About Self Interest

Quotes about: Self Interest

• What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. But what does happen is that he votes his own self-interest as he sees it... which for the majority translates as 'Bread and Circuses'.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Self, Safety, Democracy

• The greatest productive force is human selfishness.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Liberty, Selfishness, Libertarian

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.325, Penguin

• Never appeal to a man's 'better nature.' He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Nature, Men, Self

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.227, Penguin

• I don't trust a man who talks about ethics when he is picking my pocket. But if he is acting in his own self-interest and says so, I have usually been able to work out some way to do business with him.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Self, Work Out

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.26, Penguin

• The basic of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Self, Groups, Morality

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