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
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 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
Civilization depends upon the vigorous pursuit of the highest values by people who are intelligent enough to know that their values are… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
People are not running to build coal facilities because of the price of natural gas, but we do see them being constructed,… — Gina McCarthy Copy Share Image
The man who loves his country on its own account, and not merely for its trappings of interest or power, can never… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Eventually I lost interest in trying to control my life, to make things happen in a way that I thought I wanted… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
I turn down invitations to do things for money. I have almost no interest in making money. Actually, I've acquired a fair… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
It is not only highly desirable but necessary that there should be legislation which shall carefully shield the interests of wage-workers, and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When you think of policies that are going to address inequality of wealth, you have to be very thoughtful about what economists… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Lobbyists are in many cases expert technicians and capable of explaining complex and difficult subjects in a clear, understandable fashion. They engage… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I understand that unless you have a government of laws, rather than a government of people, you cannot protect dissent. And I… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I am firmly convinced, as I have already said, that to effect any great social improvement, it is sympathy rather than self-interest,… — Henry George Copy Share Image
I think that the influence of people with power and money to distort democracy and have their interests served before the rest… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
It's really a situation [ Donald Trump's children are involved now in choosing the next government] that no other president had in… — Brian Ross Copy Share Image
Today, the West is confronted by the powers that seek to test our will, undermine our confidence, and challenge our interests. To… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
My website inspired me to create my book club and provides me with a creative outlet where I can write about things… — Lauren Conrad Copy Share Image
I will say without reservations that from my point of view there can be no abstractions. Any shape or area that has… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
When I first got out to Hollywood, they were pushing me for sitcoms, and I didn't really have an interest in them.… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
There is a system of terroristic states-the real terror network-that has spread throughout Latin America and elsewhere over the past several decades,… — Edward S. Herman Copy Share Image
I think it's very important - no matter what you may do professionally - to keep alive some of the healthy interests… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
if we continue with what is surely our greatest Western temptation, and think that in some way history owes us a solution,… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material,… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Once you have made it, you will understand that any business is limited in the challenges it offers. You will want and… — J. Paul Getty Copy Share Image
I would have every zealous man examine his heart thoroughly, and I believe he will often find that what be calls a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The truth is, those people we feel drawn to most might not be intended as love interests, but rather as life-changing, life-altering… — Tonya Hurley Copy Share Image
We [women] are the majority of the population, majority of the electorate, majority of the workforce... and yet we're still doing majority… — Ai-jen Poo Copy Share Image
I started to take a keen interest in food when I was 16 years old. When I was a young teenager my… — Ainsley Harriott Copy Share Image
It is natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
My parents couldn't afford a full time drama school, but I basically just did every class I could do, and followed every… — Christopher Parker Copy Share Image
As you have to pay more interest and amortization on what you owe, you're left with less and less money to buy… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
It is the misfortune of all miscellaneous political combinations, that with the purest motives of their more generous members are ever mixed… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The Democratic Party hasn't whipped anybody into a frenzy. The assumption is that the people that are marching and protesting and standing… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
Everything you stand for, believe in, experience and aspire to is the result of thought. And thought is destructive because it is… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Miss Tarabotti was not certain if he was objecting to the kick or the scream, so she issued both again— with interest.… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
President-elect Donald Trump is an unprecedented figure in many respects, in part because there has never been an American president who has… — Rachel Martin Copy Share Image
I do a lot of walking around in game parks, rain forests, places like that, but it's not like I'm camping in… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Zuckerberg had the good sense to know both his own limitations and interests. He wanted an executive who would free him to… — Ken Auletta Copy Share Image
What you call the psychic being is the mind of the vital. The heart is the seat of this mind. And this… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition… — Major Owens Copy Share Image