but I am sure you know that the whole social system is a question of self-interest. What you must always appeal to, is a person's self-interest. It's your only hold. We are so constituted. I was brought up in that catechism when I was young, sir, as... Barnaby Rudge (and Hard times). - Pàgina 461per Charles Dickens - 1858Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
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| Mildred Newcomb - 1989 - 263 pàgines
...it clear to Bitzer that he will be rewarded for returning Torn to Mr. Bounderby. "If this is solely a question of self-interest with you—" Mr. Gradgrind...beg your pardon for interrupting you, Sir," returned Bilzer; "but I am sure you know that the whole social system is a question of self-interest. What you... | |
| Bruce Mazlish - 1989 - 348 pàgines
...hard-hearted disciple, Bitzer. The latter, brought up on a steady curriculum of facts, pays him back with, "I am sure you know that the whole social system is a question of self-interest." As Dickens sums it up, "It was a fundamental principle of the Gradgrind philosophy that everything... | |
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