Everyone here would die for the sake of truth. Everyone here lies constantly for the tiniest chance of personal gain. This is what it means to be a scientist. Greg Egan
I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. I would hope to act with compassion without thinking of personal gain. Thomas Aquinas
Warriors have an ulterior purpose for their acts, which has nothing to do with personal gain. The average man acts only if there is the chance for profit. Warriors act not for profit, but for the spirit. Carlos Castaneda
I have great respect for human life. My decision to take human life at the Murrah Building – I did not do it for personal gain. I ease my mind in that... I did it for the larger good. Timothy McVeigh
To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life. (, 8 September 1935) Dorothy L. Sayers
[Sheltering the shah and his family] was completely out of [President Sadat's] friendship and good human nature as he had no personal gain from it. Egyptians had not forgotten the help they received from Iran during their troubled times of war. Farah Pahlavi