Meanings of actuate by self in английском

Yes, for I know you have never been actuated by self-interest.

Priests are more actuated by self-interest, than unbelievers

No Utilitarian was ever actuated by self-interest, poor man, when he sat down to scribble his unpopular crotchets to prove self-interest universal.

Party organization is breaking down; small factions actuated by self-interest hold the balance of power between the main parties, and render government unstable and capricious.

Your neighbours are so invariably, though perhaps insensibly, actuated by self-interest-self-interest-[Mr.Tomlinsonis wrong here; but his ethics were too much narrowed to Utilitarian principles.-EDITOR.