The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
I have had an interest in art since childhood. I loved to draw as a child and still do. — Dasha Zhukova Copy Share Image
I was highly aware, in writing [the book] ROOM, that there are unsavoury aspects to our interest in such cases, and I… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I've always balked at anything that feels like a clique, even if it's not always in my best interest to do so.… — Michael Showalter Copy Share Image
To see something spectacular and recognise it as a photographic possibility is not making a very big leap. But to see something… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
Religion glorifies the dogma of a despotic, mythical God. Atheism ennobles the interests of free and progressive Man. Religion is superstition. Atheism… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
Everything that we do I pretty much want to be organic, so if that happens, then that's okay with me. But I'm… — Pat Benatar Copy Share Image
The Bible says that when we obey God’s commands, we benefit. I think we naturally assume that if we look out for… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
Political interest [can] never be separated in the long run from moral right. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have no interest in artists who are purely affirmative, who've made a commercialized fetish of the culture's stupidity. — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
When government disappears, its not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place. — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
If we all think only of our own interests, we are headed for collective disaster - just look at what we are… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The seductiveness of baseball is that almost everyone with an abiding interest in it knows exactly how it should be played. And… — George V. Higgins Copy Share Image
It seems that for some people the idea of compassion entails a complete disregard for or even a sacrifice of their own… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Taste is an evolution and refinement of one’s personal likes and dislikes. This evolution takes place with a constant curiosity and interest… — Norma Kamali Copy Share Image
Economic controversy is generally a thankless task. You cannot hope to make any impression on your opponent. Yet he is the only… — Francis Ysidro Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Our mass media have little difficulty in selling particular interests as those of all sensible men. The political needs of society become… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Corn is the hero of its own story, and though we humans played a crucial supporting role in its rise to world… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
For over a century, popular struggles in the democracies have used the nation-state to temper raw capitalism. The power of voters has… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
If you're any good as an artist, you have to be doing something nobody else has interest in. Nobody would be interested… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
I'm very excited about the resurgence of vinyl which seems to parallel a growing interest in live performance — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
We, as Americans, have an interest in ensuring that the only people who get to vote for our elected leaders are our… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
Patriarchy is not men. Patriarchy is a system in which both women and men participate. It privileges, inter alia, the interests of… — Ashley Judd Copy Share Image
These pictures possibly give rise to questions of political content or historical truth. Neither interests me in this instance. And although even… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles,… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“I have argued that this sort of thinking is problematic in at least two regards: First, the notion that nonhuman animals do… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
The best reason for exposing oneself to foreign ways is to generate a sense of vitality and awareness - an interest in… — Edward T. Hall Copy Share Image
For all his understanding of worldly concerns, when it came to fathoming the deeper meaning of his own furious activity, Sir Bob… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I had no interest in really becoming an actress or doing that kind of thing I just knew that I wanted to… — Susan Downey Copy Share Image
A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as… — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Copy Share Image
Solidarity is not a matter of altruism. Solidarity comes from the inability to tolerate the affront to our own integrity of passive… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
It is in the interests of both sexes to hear the other sex's experience of powerlessness. — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
The American tradition of foreign policy exceptionalism, our grand strategy as a nation, reaches back much further. Really at the turn -… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
It was hard to get away from all of the people that I thought had my best interest at heart, and they… — Michael Vick 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
As a foreign minister, I have to respect the authority to look after the best interest of the child is, as always,… — Jonas Gahr Store Copy Share Image
No one is wise enough, no nation is important enough, no human interest is precious enough, to justify the wholesale destruction and… — John Haynes Holmes Copy Share Image
That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only. — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
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