An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For extending its sway, partly by force of arms, partly by the voluntary submission of weaker tribes, the community soon acquires wealth… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Few know the joys that spring from a disinterested curiosity. It is like a cheerful spirit that leads us through worlds filled… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Agape is disinterested love. . . . Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
. . . if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed… — Beatrice Webb Copy Share Image
“Some people would regard people who look like they do as ugly if they did not look like them.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The great ideas of the West - rationalism, self-criticism, the disinterested search for truth, the separation of church and state, the rule… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and fish! Thank… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another, it is for the sovereignty… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
A cool blooded and crafty politician, when he would be thoroughly revenged on his enemy, makes the injuries which have been inflicted,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
As an innovation... the establishment of Free Schools was the boldest ever promulgated, since the commencement of the Christian era... Time has… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human… — John Strachan Copy Share Image
Love is nourished only by sacrifices, and the more a soul refuses natural satisfactions, the stronger and more disinterested becomes her tenderness. — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
I began to be involved (with exercise). It was a little bit like sex sometimes - you know how sometimes you're kind… — Diane von Furstenberg Copy Share Image
Christianity exhorted man to set himself up against Nature, but did so in the name of his spiritual and disinterested attributes. Pragmatism… — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction; it is benevolence; it fosters reciprocity and… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I don't think that people are disinterested or uninterested in politics. I think very often they are disengaged from the formal political… — John Bercow Copy Share Image
The State did not originate in any form of social agreement, or with any disinterested view of promoting order and justice. Far… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name.... We must be impartial in thought as well as… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Sade has a curious ability to render every aspect of sexuality suspect, so that we see how the chaste kiss of the… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart,… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
