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Full Idea
The common run of moralists complain that man is moved by his private interest: would to heaven it were so!
Gist of Idea
Morality would improve if people could pursue private interests
Source
Simone Weil (Reflections on Liberty and Social Oppression [1934], p.65)
Book Ref
Weil,Simone: 'Oppression and Liberty' [Routledge 1955], p.64
A Reaction
Her point is that currently people have to sacrifice their own interests to communal activities which offer dubious benefits.