Self-interest speaks all manner of tongues and plays all manner of parts, even that of disinterestedness. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
For the larger interest of humanity, Islamic society presents the safest place on this planet. — Jermaine Jackson Copy Share Image
A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: Either he abandons all earthly interests or else he possesses much which could… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A clever man should handle his interests so that each will fall in suitable order of their value. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Criminals interest me, because they're driven by the same desires as we are, but they take these disastrous shortcuts and end up… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interest, his habits. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I don't look at my work in a critical or analytical way; I just don't think of myself objectively. It doesn't interest… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I never saw a pyramid, but I've seen photographs; I know what a pyramid or a sphinx looks like. There are pictures… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
This is the power of art: The power to transcend our own self-interest, our solipsistic zoom-lens on life, and relate to the… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
There's a lot of interest from the medical community on how things develop in microgravity, and the hope, later, that is expected… — Linda M. Godwin Copy Share Image
I've said many times that I wouldn't hunt if I didn't enjoy it, and I wouldn't hunt if it weren't for the… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
Absolutely pay off credit card debt. If you're not getting a match in your 401(k) and you've got credit card debt, you've… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
The values that I have are the values I was raised with, from where I'm from, which is a middle-class place. So… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
There is still a tendency to regard any existing government intervention as desirable, to attribute all evils to the market, and to… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I… — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
The illegitimate use of a state by economic interests for their own ends is based upon a preexisting illegitimate power of the… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
Who would think of buying or selling a private business because of someone's guess on the stock market? The availability of a… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
In a free Government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
But suppose one doesn't quite know which one wants to put first. Suppose," said Harriet, falling back on words which were not… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I wished to acquire the simplicity, native feelings, and virtues of savage life; to divest myself of the factitious habits, prejudices and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The industrial economy which divides society absolutely into two portions, the payers of wages and the receivers of them, the first counted… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
There is very little that our government or any government can do to plant the seeds of international understanding in the hearts… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I guess I don't have much interest in writing straight drama. So whatever subject matter I choose will ultimately be dealt with… — Jill Davis Copy Share Image
If companies shared profits with their workers, employers and employees would have a greater mutual interest in each other's success. — David Lammy Copy Share Image
“I was responsible, because no one else was interested--interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There were a series of moments when I decided that art was important, and it was an important vehicle for me to… — Theaster Gates Copy Share Image
You are in the field to defend the public interest, the financial truth for investors and the funds that should support the… — Clarence W. Barron Copy Share Image
So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A Court of equity can mould interests differently from a Court of law; and can give relief in cases where a Court… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of… — Armstrong Williams Copy Share Image
It is curious how much more interest can be evoked by a mixture of gossip, romance and mystery than by facts. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have a huge political interest. I just wish I had the courage to come into politics in India. — Shekhar Kapur Copy Share Image
The essential challenge is to transform the isolation and self-interest within our communities into connectedness and caring for the whole. — Peter Block Copy Share Image
Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
I've reached the moment where the movement of my thought interests me more than the thought itself. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Fighting by itself doesn't interest me anymore. I want to help people, the black people and I need any kind of media… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
