Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state's. — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
Luxury and excessive refinement are sure forerunners of the decadence of states, because when all individuals seek their own interests they neglect… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people being necessary for the preservation of their… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Each person discovers a field of allurements, the totality of which bears the unique stamp of that person’s personality. Destiny unfolds in… — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest. — John Buchanan Robinson Copy Share Image
While there are practical and sometimes moral reasons for the decomposition of the family, it coincides neither with what most people in… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
I have less than no interest in trying to replicate another brilliant actor's work, thank you very much. — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very… — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
There's a lot of interest there in the missions that I fly on and the ones my brother's involved with. — Mark Kelly Copy Share Image
Nothing so uncertain as general reputation. A man injures me from humor, passion, or interest; hates me because he has injured me;… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties. — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
If men, who in their hearts are friends to a government, forbear giving it their utmost assistance against its enemies, they put… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Well, there is a contradiction in a sense. If you're making commercials which sell products which are unhealthy or which are unnecessary,… — Haskell Wexler Copy Share Image
The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As publishers focus on blockbusters, they steadily lose interest in little-known authors from other countries. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
When a person completely has nothing but negative interest in you and would like nothing more than to see you in the… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
The shows being made nowadays are very similar, very regressive. We are talking about the type of '60s, '70s kind of films,… — Supriya Pathak Copy Share Image
“Don’t be unwilling to take those little steps; in them are residing great journeys. Move on.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The interests of all Cypriots would be advanced with a bizonal bicommunal federation. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We have to work sincerely and responsibly to thwart any attempt to divide the Arab nation into small groups, with which foreign… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
At a time when the GOP is playing games with the debt limit, a member of the Supreme Court is refusing to… — Anthony Weiner Copy Share Image
I don't think people talk to me because I'm such a good, charming, good-looking guy. I don't - whether that's true or… — Mark Leibovich Copy Share Image
I take so little interest in my daily life, that I hardly remember to eat and drink. — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
Social innovation thrives on collaboration; on doing things with others, rather than just to them or for them: hence the great interest… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
I recognize that there's an appetite that I'm now serving, and I'm happy to do so. I think it means quite a… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Honesty and interest are as intimately connected in the public as in the private code of morality. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I ask the internist why there aren't more Ornish-like studies. 'There aren't any financial interests involved.' — Michael Greger Copy Share Image
What interest, zest, or excitement can there be in achieving the right way, unless we are enabled to feel that the wrong… — William James Copy Share Image
People nowadays interchange gifts and favors out of friendship, but buying and selling is considered absolutely inconsistent with the mutual benevolence which… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
We conservatives can win the ideological battles on a level playing field. Our ideas are better. Given fair elections based on contributions… — John McCain Copy Share Image
My main interest in synthesizers when I was an older teenager was to escape from the spell of the 12-tone system or,… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
John Hall, my geography teacher at school inspired me to a lifelong interest in geography and a curiosity about our world which… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
Dodge v. Ford still stands for the legal principal that managers and directors have a legal duty to put the shareholders' interests… — Joel Bakan Copy Share Image
African cinema doesn't have an African industry at all and that's where our problem arises. We come to all of these initiatives… — Jihan El-Tahri Copy Share Image
The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I like developing characters who I find to have interesting psychology. Like politics and sex, but I'm really looking at bigger social… — Mora Stephens Copy Share Image
The howl of self-interest is loud ... but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Marxism was the social creed and the social cry of those classes who knew by their miseries that the creed of the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image