“friendship and love blind every man to their interests.”
Robert Greene book The 48 Laws of Power
Source: The 48 Laws of Power
“There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.”
— Chanakya
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François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Ce que les hommes ont nommé amitié n'est qu'une société, qu'un ménagement réciproque d'intérêts, et qu'un échange de bons offices; ce n'est enfin qu'un commerce où l'amour-propre se propose toujours quelque chose à gagner.
Maxim 83.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction.”
Greg Bear book The Forge of God
Source: The Forge of God (1987), Chapter 52 (p. 352)
“There is no such thing as eternal friendship or eternal hostility–-only eternal interests.”
Former Dean of Islamic Law at Qatar University Abd Al-Hamid Al-Ansari: The Innocent Pay the Price for the Incitement by the Preachers of Hatred, MEMRI, December 9, 2007 http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/1656.htm, <br class="br">Political friendships
Michael Moorcock book The Runestaff
Book 1, Chapter 7 “A Well-Known Traveler” (p. 413)
The Runestaff (1969)
“No one today likes truth: utility and self interest have long ago been substituted for truth.”
Nikolai Berdyaev (1874–1948) Russian philosopher
Source: Political Testament (1949), p. 80
Context: A real reconciliation of East and West is impossible and inconceivable on the basis of a materialistic Communism, or of a materialistic Capitalism, or indeed of a materialistic Socialism. The third way will neither be "anti-Communist" nor "anti-Capitalist". It will recognize the truth in liberal democracy, and it will equally recognize the truth in Communism. A critique of Communism and Marxism does not entail an enmity towards Soviet Russia, just as a critique of liberal democracy is not entail enmity towards the west. … But the final and most important justification of a "third way" is that there must be a place from which we may boldly testify to, and proclaim, truth, love and justice. No one today likes truth: utility and self interest have long ago been substituted for truth.
“What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.”
Terry Tempest Williams (1955) American writer
Source: Pieces of White Shell
Kenneth Tynan (1927–1980) English theatre critic and writer
Sallust, Bellum Catilinae, X, 5. This particular translation of the original Latin is from the essay "On Liberty" by Abraham Cowley: "Sallust, therefore, who was well acquainted with them both and with many such-like gentlemen of his time, says, 'That it is the nature of ambition' (Ambitio multos mortales falsos fieri coegit, etc.) 'to make men liars and cheaters; to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths; to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.'" http://ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext02/cowes10.txt The Wikiquote page for Sallust has the quote and a different translation. <br class="br">Misattributed