Interest Quotes · Page 147

A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human.

— Georges Rouault

According to the Bank of England the economy is growing too fast so interest rates must rise to counter the supposed inflationary…

— Harry Enfield

I am there for the best interests of the fighters, I want them to win. If they don’t accept that, bye bye.

— Bas Rutten

Can Protagonist think of a single film that interests him as much as the three-hundredth best book he ever read?

— David Markson

I try to persuade people to act in ways that are not only in their own interest, but in the interest of…

— Eric Schlosser

Morality, after all, has nothing to do with selflessness. On the contrary, self-interest is precisely the basis of the categorical imperative.

— Frans de Waal

No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment…

— James Madison

Remembrance saves a people's soul from whatever or whoever would attempt to dominate it or use it for their interests.

— Pope Francis

It's in the best interest of the radical left types - best psychological and strategic interest - to refuse to admit to…

— Jordan Peterson

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied…

— Tom Stoppard

So, in addition to being a full-time father of two and everything else in life, it isn't so much that I'm sitting…

— DJ Shadow

Instead of thinking of the question of race genealogically, and leaving it open whether vernacular races are genealogical units, the interest in…

— Elliott Sober

So if you look back over the long history of China, they've never tried to take over the world, but they've been…

— Fred Thompson

I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about…

— Kate Walsh

In addition to world conflicts, the most challenging problem we face today is hunger, deprivation and social injustice. Because we're ruled by…

— Satish Kumar

European democracy was originally imbued with a sense of Christian responsibility and self-discipline, but these spiritual principles have been gradually losing their…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Democracy entails a correlation between the public interest as expressed by a majority of the population and the governmental policies that affect…

— Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

Gandhi rejects the Adam Smith notion of human nature as motivated by self-interest and brute needs and returns us to our spiritual…

— Nelson Mandela

This is the great new problem of mankind. We have inherited a large house, a great ‘world house’ in which we have…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

[T]he kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure. Mighty…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

[Peace] is the highest and most strenuous act of the soul, but an entirely harmonious act, in which all our powers and…

— William Ellery Channing

At the highest levels of the medical cartel, vaccines are a top priority because they cause a weakening of the immune system.…

— Anonymous

Gratitude based on a faith that everything that happens or doesn’t happen in your life is for your own best interests. That…

— William Holden

This is a perfect snapshot of the West at twilight. On the one hand, governments of developed nations microregulate every aspect of…

— Mark Steyn

One's range [of ideas] is limited by one's interests and imagination and by one's passion.

— Jasper Johns

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

The transitory interests of royal houses may be advanced in war; the real interests of all people are furthered by the peace.

— Kenneth Waltz

Successful organizing is not built on self-interest but rather on dignity and a sense of purpose.

— Paul Wellstone

I think my films are very English. That certain emotional distance, interest in the world, interest in irony. These are all deeply…

— Peter Greenaway

The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.

— John Cage

I've noticed throughout my long life that people with vested interest in things staying the way they are regularly insist that both…

— Sarah Schulman

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.

— George Bancroft

We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business.…

— Pericles

It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past.

— Bulent Ecevit

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

— Robert Harris

We think it is in our nation's interest that Afghan women - or any women around the world - not suffer.

— George W. Bush

It's one thing to support your kid, but if you have an interest in what your child is doing, it makes it…

— Peter Jackson

The interests of the IMF represent the big international interests that today seem to be established and concentrated in Wall Street.

— Che Guevara

You have to buy off interest groups, compromise your ideals, and settle for half loaves...

— Kevin Drum

I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen.

— Louis Begley