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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
Self-interest will set all sorts of virtues and vices in motion.
[L’intérêt met en œuvre toutes sortes de vertus et de vices.]François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶253 (1665-1678) [tr. FitzGibbon (1957)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #enlightenedselfinterest #interest #motivation #selfinterest #selfserving #selfishness #vice #virtue
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When plunder has become a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
[Lorsque la Spoliation est devenue le moyen d’existence d’une agglomération d’hommes unis entre eux par le lien social, ils se font bientôt une loi qui la sanctionne, une morale qui la glorifie.]Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) French philosopher, economist, politician
Economic Sophisms [Sophismes Économiques], 2nd Series, ch. 1 “Physiology of Plunder [Physiologie de la Spoliation]” (1848) [tr. Goddard (1964)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bastiat-frederic/395…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bastiat #fredericbastiat #robbery #corruption #exploitation #legalsystem #morality #plunder #plutocracy #selfserving #system #theft #meme
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When plunder has become a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
[Lorsque la Spoliation est devenue le moyen d’existence d’une agglomération d’hommes unis entre eux par le lien social, ils se font bientôt une loi qui la sanctionne, une morale qui la glorifie.]Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) French philosopher, economist, politician
Economic Sophisms [Sophismes Économiques], 2nd Series, ch. 1 “Physiology of Plunder [Physiologie de la Spoliation]” (1848) [tr. Goddard (1964)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bastiat-frederic/395…
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It is time To RETIRE THE PHRASE 'MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX'. Americans must be vigilant to guard against a self-serving “National Security Establishment,”
https://rosecoveredglasses.wordpress.com/2025/10/12/time-to-retire-the-phrase-military-industrial-complex/
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It is time To RETIRE THE PHRASE 'MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX'. Americans must be vigilant to guard against a self-serving “National Security Establishment,”
https://rosecoveredglasses.wordpress.com/2025/10/12/time-to-retire-the-phrase-military-industrial-complex/
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A quotation from Josh Billings
The quickest way to take the starch out ov a man who iz allwuss blameing himself, is to agree with him, this aint what he iz looking for.
[The quickest way to take the starch out of a man who is always blaming himself, is to agree with him; this ain’t what he is looking for.]Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1875-11 (1875 ed.)More info about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/79006/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #blame #criticism #falsemodesty #pretense #selfblame #selfcriticism #selfdeprecation #selfeffacing #selfserving
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When he noticed how the guests chose the places of honor, he told them a parable. “When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not sit down at the place of honor, in case someone more distinguished than you has been invited by your host, and the host who invited both of you may come and say to you, ‘Give this person your place,’ and then in disgrace you would start to take the lowest place.
“But when you are invited, go and sit down at the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he may say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher’; then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you.
“For all who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”
[Ἔλεγεν δὲ πρὸς τοὺς κεκλημένους παραβολήν, ἐπέχων πῶς τὰς πρωτοκλισίας ἐξελέγοντο, λέγων πρὸς αὐτούς, Ὅταν κληθῇς ὑπό τινος εἰς γάμους, μὴ κατακλιθῇς εἰς τὴν πρωτοκλισίαν, μήποτε ἐντιμότερός σου ᾖ κεκλημένος ὑπ᾽ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐλθὼν ὁ σὲ καὶ αὐτὸν καλέσας ἐρεῖ σοι, Δὸς τούτῳ τόπον, καὶ τότε ἄρξῃ μετὰ αἰσχύνης τὸν ἔσχατον τόπον κατέχειν.
ἀλλ᾽ ὅταν κληθῇς, πορευθεὶς ἀνάπεσε εἰς τὸν ἔσχατον τόπον, ἵνα ὅταν ἔλθῃ ὁ κεκληκώς σε ἐρεῖ σοι, Φίλε, προσανάβηθι ἀνώτερον· τότε ἔσται σοι δόξα ἐνώπιον πάντων τῶν συνανακειμένων σοι.
ὅτι πᾶς ὁ ὑψῶν ἑαυτὸν ταπεινωθήσεται, καὶ ὁ ταπεινῶν ἑαυτὸν ὑψωθήσεται.]The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
Luke 14: 7-11 (Jesus) [NRSV (2021 ed.)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/bible-nt/13303/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bible #newtestament #jesus #firstshallbelast #honor #humbleness #humility #importance #prestige #pride #rank #selfaggrandizing #selfdeprecation #selfglorification #selfimportance #selfpromotion #selfregard #selfserving
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A quotation from Kurt Vonnegut
Fascism was a fairly popular political philosophy which made sacred whatever nation and race the philosopher happened to belong to.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007) American novelist, journalist
Breakfast of Champions, ch. 17 (1973)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/vonnegut-kurt-jr/768…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #kurtvonnegut #fascism #ideology #nationalism #politics #racism #selfaggrandizing #selfserving #usvsthem
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A quotation from Kurt Vonnegut
Fascism was a fairly popular political philosophy which made sacred whatever nation and race the philosopher happened to belong to.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007) American novelist, journalist
Breakfast of Champions, ch. 17 (1973)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/vonnegut-kurt-jr/768…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #kurtvonnegut #fascism #ideology #nationalism #politics #racism #selfaggrandizing #selfserving #usvsthem
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@sellathechemist @Thebratdragon @JugglingWithEggs @UKLabour
It does not serve rhe British people, tiger. It is a disservice.
BBC
World News Disservice.
Clink clink clank clank denk.#uklabour #labour #lies #bullfluent
#fertilizer #dishonest #selfserving
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@sellathechemist @Thebratdragon @JugglingWithEggs @UKLabour
It does not serve rhe British people, tiger. It is a disservice.
BBC
World News Disservice.
Clink clink clank clank denk.#uklabour #labour #lies #bullfluent
#fertilizer #dishonest #selfserving
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#Please #sell #more of your #cool #stuff and #services and #art and #music en la #fedi.
I will — in #solidarity with your #crass #SelfServing effort to get monetary #permission you use to let others know they're #allowed to give you #food to eat and #housing to sleep under a roof and such without themselves #increasing their #risk under #capitalism of having neither — at least block people who complain about it.
Don't mistake this for endorsing #advertising and #sponsorships, because I do not.
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#Please #sell #more of your #cool #stuff and #services and #art and #music en la #fedi.
I will — in #solidarity with your #crass #SelfServing effort to get monetary #permission you use to let others know they're #allowed to give you #food to eat and #housing to sleep under a roof and such without themselves #increasing their #risk under #capitalism of having neither — at least block people who complain about it.
Don't mistake this for endorsing #advertising and #sponsorships, because I do not.
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[#Trump]…portrays himself as a champion of the #military, but #Democrats point to his public & private remarks denigrating #ServiceMembers.
“I just haven’t seen anything this disgusting. It is completely inappropriate to do any kind of #political activity on a federal installation, & it is #immoral …to conduct any kind of #SelfServing activity on a #cemetery w/the graves of our fallen,”said Paul Eaton, a ret #Army general & adviser to #VoteVets whose father’s remains are interred at #Arlington.
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[#Trump]…portrays himself as a champion of the #military, but #Democrats point to his public & private remarks denigrating #ServiceMembers.
“I just haven’t seen anything this disgusting. It is completely inappropriate to do any kind of #political activity on a federal installation, & it is #immoral …to conduct any kind of #SelfServing activity on a #cemetery w/the graves of our fallen,”said Paul Eaton, a ret #Army general & adviser to #VoteVets whose father’s remains are interred at #Arlington.
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At the same time, he runs a #charity w/billions of dollars, the kind of resources that could make a global #impact. But unlike #BillGates, who has deployed his fortune in an effort to improve #healthcare across Africa, or #Walmart’s Walton family, which has spurred change in the American #education system, #Musk’s philanthropy has been haphazard & largely #SelfServing — making him eligible for enormous #TaxBreaks & helping his businesses.
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At the same time, he runs a #charity w/billions of dollars, the kind of resources that could make a global #impact. But unlike #BillGates, who has deployed his fortune in an effort to improve #healthcare across Africa, or #Walmart’s Walton family, which has spurred change in the American #education system, #Musk’s philanthropy has been haphazard & largely #SelfServing — making him eligible for enormous #TaxBreaks & helping his businesses.
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How #Gender Is #Policed in #America. #PaisleyCurrah’s wide-ranging #study #SexIsasSexDoes examines how #transphobia #emerged in #America as a result of #contradictory and #SelfServing #sexclassification #policies
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Sex #Gender #GenderRoles #GenderNorms #GenderBinary #TERFS #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/paisley-currah-transgender-history/
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How #Gender Is #Policed in #America. #PaisleyCurrah’s wide-ranging #study #SexIsasSexDoes examines how #transphobia #emerged in #America as a result of #contradictory and #SelfServing #sexclassification #policies
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Sex #Gender #GenderRoles #GenderNorms #GenderBinary #TERFS #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/paisley-currah-transgender-history/
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Time for Alberta government, especially its premier, to “grow up.” Well stated article.
#StitchedInkMedia #Canada #Alberta #Politics #Antics #SelfServing #Immature #Growup #Conservative #Lies #Poor #Leadership #World
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A take on the behavioral mindset of those who read for hate rather than pleasure. It is sad what can happen to elitist minds that never learned diverse thinking.
#StitchedInkMedia #Politics #Canada #World #US #Convervatives #Books #bookBans #Reading #WritingCommunity #Hateful #BookHuggers #SelfServing #Singular #Thinking
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After a season of excessive, costly wildfires, and six months of record temperatures, five conservative premiers want to remove the only solution on the table, for political points, taking income from eighty percent of constituents getting more back, without advancing any better, alternative solutions. Weak leadership is the surrender to political denialism.
#StitchedInkMedia #Politics #Convervative #Con #Carbon #Climate #Wildfires #Future #World #SelfServing #Tax
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The #BIGGEST #PROBLEM facing #Israel #Gaza #GazaStrip #WestBank #GolanHeightss is that for years now #NOBODY IN THE #WORLD TRUSTS #Palestinian #Abbas or #Israeli #Netanyahu as far as they can throw either one of the two #Liars #Fascists #Warmongers because neither one of the two #SelfServing #PowerHungry #Militants #Megalomaniacs give a damn about their people, especially their young people, young #Palestinians and young #Israelis, which both #Terrorists use and exploit to carry out their #Terrorism!
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Proof you’re on the right track is when this guy calls you smart.
#StitchedInkMedia #Politics #Nature #Climate #ClimateChange #UK #World #WateredDown #RightWing #Inflation #Science #Narcissism #Denialism #SelfServing #Nutshell #Proof
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Proof you’re on the right track is when this guy calls you smart.
#StitchedInkMedia #Politics #Nature #Climate #ClimateChange #UK #World #WateredDown #RightWing #Inflation #Science #Narcissism #Denialism #SelfServing #Nutshell #Proof
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@Lats yes, what's novel tho but slowly started with #DavidCameron, exploded with #BorisJohnson and reached the height of ridicule with #LizTruss is how the #Tories have developed a #selfserving culture around the self, literally, AGAINST the party. That is certainly foreign to what #Thatcher used to do. And there are many Tories (unlike in the US) who are still 'old school' & don't like that. I just hope the UK won't follow the US into institutional disintegration.The #climate battle will tell
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DEE SNIDER Says METALLICA's 'No Repeat Weekend' Concept Is 'Self-Serving': 'It Only Appeals To A Small Percentage Of The Crowd'#DeeSnider
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DEE SNIDER Says METALLICA's 'No Repeat Weekend' Concept Is 'Self-Serving': 'It Only Appeals To A Small Percentage Of The Crowd'#DeeSnider
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Suella #Braverman asked whether she could claim speeding ticket on expenses, #Tory claims
Yep… #entitlement #greed #selfserving
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/suella-braverman-asked-whether-could-29782674
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Suella #Braverman asked whether she could claim speeding ticket on expenses, #Tory claims
Yep… #entitlement #greed #selfserving
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/suella-braverman-asked-whether-could-29782674
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That was in a different era when offensive #populistRight earworms about nasty furriners comin ere taking our jobs and litterin our streets were not uttered by members of the ruling party........
I am with #lineker in being incandescent with rage that my country is being misruled by this #amoral #selfserving bunch of toerags
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@cjmoorehead @gemelliz This is what #fordSupporters want. A #corrupt #SelfServing buffoon who will line their pockets alongside the hefty increases #DoFo enjoys in his own financial and physical girth. May he expand until he bursts. #cdnMedia oh look, belly lint. #OnPoli oh look, a minivan.
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@cjmoorehead @gemelliz This is what #fordSupporters want. A #corrupt #SelfServing buffoon who will line their pockets alongside the hefty increases #DoFo enjoys in his own financial and physical girth. May he expand until he bursts. #cdnMedia oh look, belly lint. #OnPoli oh look, a minivan.
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Oh of course, we have plenty of time left, no need to provide leadership or understanding. The #selfserving really are going to end life on the planet.
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Oh of course, we have plenty of time left, no need to provide leadership or understanding. The #selfserving really are going to end life on the planet.
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"Mr Chisholm told the committee it was "normal" for the Government to pay the legal fees of former ministers when an inquiry related to their ministerial conduct, and the contract with Peters and Peters had received "very full scrutiny from all the relevant people".
Quite right too!
The 'government' should pay this #Repulsive #Lying #Corrupt #Homophobic #Misogynist #Racist #SelfServing #ExPrimeMinister's fees.
That's the #ConservethemselvesParty NOT the tax paying public! 🤬 🤬 🤬
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Not really - all that determines the result of the #nextGE is the way people vote. The rest is just feelings and opinions
You sound really angry - my anger is reserved for the #corrupt, #selfServing, #lying #ToriesOut who have done such huge damage to our country and continue to do so
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Not really - all that determines the result of the #nextGE is the way people vote. The rest is just feelings and opinions
You sound really angry - my anger is reserved for the #corrupt, #selfServing, #lying #ToriesOut who have done such huge damage to our country and continue to do so