
“It is in your self-interest to find a way to be very tender.”
How to Understand Politics: What the Humanities Can Say to Science (2007)
Context: Self-interest, when simple, is universal; I would do the same as you. I would be propelled toward an obvious good, or toward a good I thought obvious. If self-interest is obvious, it is not really your very own; it has been generalized, perhaps artificially.
“It is in your self-interest to find a way to be very tender.”
After the Revolution? (1970; 1990), Ch. 3 : Democracy and Markets
Twitter post https://twitter.com/jaynordlinger/status/1038770310034673664 (9 September 2018)
2010s
“You're an interesting woman."
"Your interest has been duly noted.”
Source: Magic Burns
Quote in his letter to brother Theo, from Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France, 10 Sept. 1889; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, (letter 605), p. 26
1880s, 1889
“Charity is really self-interest masquerading under the form of altruism.”
"The masquerade of charity," p. 19
Awareness (1992)
Source: Dreamsnake (1978), Chapter 10 (p. 224)