Such a decision will also serve to convince critics of the Organization that the Member States can rise above narrow self interest and embrace the larger interests of the international community.

The moral society, based on decent self interest, that Thatcher hoped to establish became the greedy society, based on coarse self regard.

But so can enlightened self interest.

It will also require a commitment to the collective will and a retreat from preoccupation with self interest and narrow national agendas.

Ideas matter, as much or perhaps even more than self interest.

Naked self interest should persuade the advanced countries as well.

What Thaksin did for the poor required only political self interest.

We must learn a new grammar of power in a world that is made up more of the common good or the common bad than of self interest or national interest.

Cuba has given material reality to its selfless solidarity and cooperation to almost all the countries of the region.

Both countries, along with others, have much more to gain from cooperation.

In Greenspan s words, the self interest of lending institutions would protect shareholders and the economy from lending excess.

Yet they share a root cause, whereby speculative and often narrow interests have superseded the common interest, common responsibilities, and common sense.

All of us here representatives are national leaders. In today's world, we cannot serve our own interests well unless we rise above narrow national interests.

Enlightened self interest, because if that economic divergence continues for another 40 years, combined with social integration globally, it will build a nightmare for our children.

Among the French of 1835, however, the doctrine of self interest had produced egotism no less blind.

Adam Smith focused on the role of enlightened self interest (the invisible hand ) and the role of specialization in promoting the efficiency of capital accumulation.

That is to say thank you, thank you. That is to say, remember my whole view of morality is that it boils down to self interest.

In a world of interconnected threats and challenges, it is in each country's self interest that all of them are addressed effectively.

If the government's fiscal survival depends on it having to raise money from its own people, such a government is driven by self interest to govern in a more enlightened fashion.

The West s lofty and self serving rhetoric has not helped to end Syria s conflict it may even have made the situation more dangerous.

This debate is at the cutting edge of today s globalization, yet it is clouded by a healthy dose of national self interest.

Of course, the NPT does not rest solely on moral arguments, but primarily on self interest and prudence.

Whereas political stasis supported a development miracle in Japan, the inertia created by Turkey s self interested establishment resulted in a discouraged society with unfulfilled expectations.

At the highest levels of human achievement whether in art, science, or football it might actually be the more important factor.

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The self interest of those opposed to the establishment of a bona fide Government has been a constant, and the Monitoring Group has in its previous reports laid bare this central problem in Somalia.

Enlightened self interest can be state based, but interests would be re defined to encompass universal principles such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Nor does it seem likely to emulate the splintered, individualized, solitary society and the commodified sexual revolution that Western, self based feminism reflects.

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It is underpinned by a Confucian ethic that prioritizes caring for others over self interest, which helps to explain why Hong Kong has the highest rate of charitable giving in East Asia.

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They would need to muster evidence that the transition to a low carbon economy is both technically feasible and profitable, yielding positive effects not only for the climate, but also for energy prices and security of supply. Success would spur other G 20 countries, acting out of self interest, to follow in the climate leaders footsteps.

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The European Parliament, which for the first time must approve the MFF, should use its new found influence to uphold the EU wide public interest and offset the blinkered, vested interests of individual member states.

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But, while the pursuit of self interest may be advantageous in certain contexts, it is not the only, or even the principal, driver of human behavior and it is not conducive to overcoming today s most pressing global issues.

The US Federal Reserve argues, with some justification, that its quantitative easing is compatible with price stability, while Europe and several emerging countries deem it beggar thy neighbor behavior.

The king of Babylon has heard the news of them, and his hands wax feeble anguish has taken hold of him, pains as of a woman in labor.

The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.

As the philosopher Peter Singer showed in his bookOne World, a united front against the biggest problems facing the world will require a fundamental shift in attitude away from parochialism and toward a redefinition of self interest.

After Lehman s collapse, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan testified before the US Congress that he had found a flaw in the ideology that self interest would protect society from the financial system s excesses.

Too often the participation of young people is viewed solely as self serving, without taking into account that it also has a wider social function and leads to stronger public policy and better governance at all levels.

The experts took the view that there should be sufficient disclosure of the qualifications and biographical information of all board members to assure shareholders and other stakeholders that the members can effectively fulfill their responsibilities.

The EoC highlights the figure of the entrepreneur, who, it claims, does not seem well represented by the Homo Economicus , the model of a human person with the single goal of personal utility who only applies the logic of rational self interest in decision making.