Jesus, it is true, shows no personal interest in gain, but he does speak of treasure in heaven and even of mansions… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
NATO is in our national security interests. And, yes, we pay a lot for it, but, when we had Afghanistan, NATO troops… — James Franklin Jeffrey Copy Share Image
Neither Kierkegaard nor Nietzsche had the slightest interest in starting a movement – or a new system, a thought which would indeed… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Many conservatives see higher education as a threat to their reactionary and corporate oriented interests and would like to defund higher education,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
... even if Lucretius was wrong, and the soul is immortal, it is nevertheless steadily changing its interests and its possessions.Our lives… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Our alliance with our NATO partners has been a cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy for nearly 70 years, in good times and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I must frankly admit that... I should probably lose all interest in life and would rather not be a German at all.… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
There is a tonic strength, in the hour of sorrow and affliction, in escaping from the world and society and getting back… — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
First and foremost, you do not have to live up to or emulate the lives of any of your predecessors. But at… — Yuri Kochiyama Copy Share Image
Today we are inundated with such an immense flood of printed matter that the value of individual work has depreciated, for our… — Emil Ruder Copy Share Image
Physically it's kind of lassitude, the apathy and tiredness that precedes the flu or some other illness, or death. My legs ache… — Antonio Lobo Antunes Copy Share Image
He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and… — Judith Crist Copy Share Image
I've never really been interested in the vintage photos people pay lots of money for -- civil war tintypes or old daguerrotypes… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
It wasnt until I was a sophomore in high school that I asked Mama if I could come into the kitchen and… — Paula Deen Copy Share Image
Her death contributed to my later interest in studying biochemistry, an interest that has not been fulfilled in the sense that my… — Paul D. Boyer Copy Share Image
Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or… — Jessica Savitch Copy Share Image
By a kind of happy pre-established harmony, such as a later age discovered between the needs of society and the self-interest of… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
Matching your hat to your shoe to your bag, or your necklace to your earrings, has a tendency to look dated. Mixing… — Stacy London Copy Share Image
We have to recognize that there is a range of interests, like there isn't a single corporate interest and a single state… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The "cumulative effects" of unbridled commercialism, however difficult to assess, constitute one key to the impact of growing up in the core… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
There is danger that totalitarian governments, not subject to vigorous popular debate, will underestimate the will and unity of democratic societies where… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
As Mazzini said ... it is around the standard of duty rather than around the standard of self-interest that men must rally… — Henry George Copy Share Image
Saving the world via medical research or going off to Gobi Desert to dust off dinosaur eggs is what I thought I… — Morgan Fairchild Copy Share Image
Yet in a society of conflicting interests the only democratic way in which matters can be improved is through politics, and politics… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
When you're the object of everyone's affection, make no mistake about it: you are an object. People don't have any interest in… — Jennette McCurdy Copy Share Image
When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when antiracism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
The great desideratum in Government is, so to modify the sovereignty as that it may be sufficiently neutral between different parts of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
One of the things I learned on the street was to trust life and to keep hands off of it, and that… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
The men who made the Industrial Revolution are usually pictured as hardfaced businessmen with no other motive than self-interest. That is certainly… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
We have a responsibility to hold both sides accountable to the public interest, but that doesn't mean we reflexively and artificially hold… — Mark Halperin Copy Share Image
When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The [Barack Obama] administration is sharing its knowledge, its expertise with the incoming administration. And this, to us, is a sign of… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
The fallacy is that politicians don't really do much about social issues. They just demonize their opponents as elitists and reap the… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
“Some say that it is lack of imagination which makes men and women brutes. May it not be power of imagination? The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Too often in Washington special interests urge us to fight one another just because we belong to different parties. It is time… — Ken Salazar Copy Share Image
I don't think you could find any person in political life today who has been subjected to more attacks and had more… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
What the manager says is what's important to me. What experts say doesn't interest me and never will. I know what I… — Mesut Ozil Copy Share Image
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of… — Henry James Copy Share Image