It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Back in the old days, when I was a child, we sat around the family table at dinner time and exchanged our… — Bob Keeshan Copy Share Image
The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups. — Ginny Brown-Waite Copy Share Image
I hope that 'Jaws' will have brought sharks into the public interest at a time when we desperately need to reevaluate our… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
Vladimir Putin would like to have more influence in Ukraine. He would like to have Ukraine always knocked slightly off balance so… — Kimberly Zisk Marten Copy Share Image
Film just chews up actors like nobody's business, and I'm not particularly interested in being chewed up. I think the camera can… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
I declare my belief that it is not your duty to do anything that is not to your own interest. Whenever it… — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
If there are some who talk the same language as myself, then why should I neglect their interests for the sake of… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Asian Americans haven't had as many opportunities as other people to build their careers in Hollywood, just because there hasn't been that… — Daniel Wu Copy Share Image
There isn't a single person or landscape or subject which doesn't possess some interest, although it may not be immediately apparent. When… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
People are more interested in reading bombastic ideas, whether they're positive or negative. Part of me has sort of lost interest in… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
According to data provided by the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration, and the national interest, between 9/11 and the end of 2014, at… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
After the strike, I lost interest. In reality, neither players nor owners care in the least about the fans. The greed of… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
One of the first signs of being depressed is that you lose interest in things. That's why I think it is important… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
I try always to intimate with the world… with everything I can, to feel love for it, or interest in it. To… — Gabriel Orozco Copy Share Image
A wartime Minister of Information is compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair… — Claud Cockburn Copy Share Image
How barbarous, to deny men the privilege of pursuing what they imagine to be their proper concerns and interests! Yet, in a… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
What interests me is being alive and being with friends that I care about and being as creative as I can given… — Chevy Chase Copy Share Image
You need to have a passionate interest in why things are happening. That cast of mind, kept over long periods, gradually improves… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
I have very little interest in the modern world, and I'm not in any way conflicted about that. — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
We think in youth that our bodies are identical to ourselves and have the same interests, but discover later in life that… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
My father is so jolly, and I live a really happy life. I think that's why all my interest in the darker… — Jennifer Lynch Copy Share Image
The public good is promoted best by people pursuing their own private interests. This bothers some people because they're more concerned with… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Now, it's high time for all those that have an influence on the parties with the conflict to understand that it is… — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image
I actually wanted to be a forensic scientist for a while. When I was doing my Standard Grades, three of them were… — Emun Elliott Copy Share Image
Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What North Europe thinks of as its history is actually quite provincial and of limited interest. Different sorts of Christian killing each… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
Not only is suicide a sin, it is the sin. It is the ultimate and absolute evil, the refusal to take an… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The truth is there are people who are quite informed who still vote against their interests. I would argue that, as a… — Marc Lamont Hill Copy Share Image
There's no one actor in particular that I want to model my career after, except for the people who have been able… — Hugh Dancy Copy Share Image
If the state, with all of the emotional resources at its command, cannot finance its most basic and vital activities without resort… — Mancur Olson Copy Share Image
99% of our uses of animals, including our numerically most significant use of them for food, do not involve any sort of… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
