Capital must be propelled by self-interest; it cannot be enticed by benevolence. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
We have absolutely no intention of, or interest in, crossing Ukraine's borders. — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share Image
I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest. — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
Men are like bank accounts. The more money, the more interest they generate. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly. — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My parents, and their interest in making the world a better place for more people inspired me. — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
I have no interest whatsoever in pursuing acting or becoming a mogul. I love writing and directing; I see those two jobs… — James Gray Copy Share Image
While I've worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences. — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. Men are moved by only two mechanisms: fear and self-interest.… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
To create a character who really interests you, try combining aspects of your favourite fictional character with a real person. — Caroline Lawrence Copy Share Image
What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collective interest - the international interest - is also the national interest. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Many of the French follow a Trade with the Indians, living very conveniently for that Interest. — John Lawson Copy Share Image
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The votes elected officials make should be based on the best interests of the American people, not the fear of retribution when… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The French had an obvious financial interest in Iraq. That's been documented. They were involved financially in Iraq and in some cases,… — Curt Weldon Copy Share Image
I think female-female relationships interest me so much more because they're so encoded. There is kind of a psychic element that happens… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
Deconstruction never had meaning or interest, at least in my eyes, than as a radicalization, that is to say, also within the… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
You do not mean by mystery what a Catholic does. You mean an interesting uncertainty: the uncertainty ceasing interest ceases also… But… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
Bipartisan democracy presupposes the individual, whose welfare is identical with that of the community in which he lives, the absence of coherent… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
The peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America have common interest and are in the position to support each other in their… — Kim Il-sung Copy Share Image
Before, we may have taken part in it without even thinking it was American Jewish, but in this case, I think, you… — Neville Marriner Copy Share Image
Living consciously is seeking to be aware of everything that bears on our interests, actions, values, purposes, and goals. It is the… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
That's what the leadership was teaching me, day by day: that the self-interest I was supposed to be looking for extended well… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
This state of mind, which subordinates the interests of the ego to the conservation of the community, is really the first premise… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
One of our greatest challenges here in America is that pogressives don't always stand with the progressive Muslims because in the interest… — Asra Nomani Copy Share Image
There is no permanent status quo in nature; all is the process of adjustment and readjustment, or else eventual failure. But man… — Hermann Joseph Muller Copy Share Image
...some people might think our lives dull and uneventful, but it does not seem so to us. ...it is not travel and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Legislative action will never bring genuine campaign-finance reform. Consultants will prove endlessly inventive in gaming whatever system the reformers can devise so… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
The real challenge is not to get people to remember more, but to get them to understand better. We're just now beginning… — John Sculley Copy Share Image
I have always had an abiding interest in that type of female anatomy. — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
There's always an important person who helps support your interests and encourages you. — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
Paralysis of leadership is due in part to the unseen grip of the special interests. — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
