To attribute rights to animals is to ignore the purpose and justification of rights - to protect the interests of man. — Alex Epstein Copy Share Image
Politics is mainly about interests. As Muslim citizens, we understand these interests but we should put principles and dignity beyond everything. — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the… — Marty Meehan Copy Share Image
No citizen is apolitical; as a citizen, by definition, has to take interest in public affairs. — Mohammad Hamid Ansari Copy Share Image
I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
Politics has always been a mud fight - better that citizens jump in the trough than lose interest. — James Poniewozik Copy Share Image
Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island. — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
When you have somebody in a position of power show interest in you after you've kind of been down and out, that's… — Matt Lauer Copy Share Image
But why doesn't the Gospel ever say that Christ laughed?" I asked, for no good reason. "Is Jorge right?" "Legions of scholars… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Playing by the rules, one does the best he can, irrespective of the social consequences. Whereas in making the rules, people ought… — George Soros Copy Share Image
We have believed for many years, much earlier than anyone else was talking about this issue, that it was in the interest… — Rodrigo Rato Copy Share Image
We count, in the future as in the past, on the driving power of individual initiative, on the incentive of fair private… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Ingmar Bergman is a long way from me, but I admire him. He, too, concentrates a great deal on individuals; and although… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
The reality is that the special interest groups that have lobbied against Free Choice Vouchers object to any measure that would empower… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
There were people whose only interest in life was writing letters. To the newspapers, to authors, to strangers, to City Councils, to… — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
The bigger story here is that the fabric of the Net has changed; it’s a place for people to connect up around… — Steve Rubel Copy Share Image
The folks who want to build this mosque, who are really radical Islamists, who want to triumphfully prove they can build a… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
The AMA puts the lives and well being of the American citizens well below it's own special interest...It deserves to be ignored,… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Now, you ban not the whole Muslim world. You ban seven states, seven states that have not been responsible for a single… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When are we left-wingers going to learn that we are losing the cultural and political battle with conservatives because we are fractured… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
My agency in promoting the passage of the National Bank Act was the greatest financial mistake of my life. It has built… — Salmon P. Chase Copy Share Image
In order to arouse sympathy, the aristocracy was obliged to lose sight, apparently, of its own interests, and to formulate its indictment… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
If the Federal Reserve pursues a policy which Congress or the President believes not to be in the public interest, there is… — Wright Patman Copy Share Image
Now, the topic of religion seems much more complex, and I have a more complex relationship with it myself because I love… — Adam Conover Copy Share Image
Tastes are created by the business interests. How else can you explain the popularity of Al Hirt? — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
I pray that there will be more roles for bigger girls. I pray that the role of the love interest, the beautiful,… — Nikki Blonsky Copy Share Image
In this way, the charge that the bank makes for the use of its notes - the interest - is a continual… — John Buchanan Robinson Copy Share Image
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
That whole lifestyle - make a record, do a tour: I know how to do that. It doesn't interest me. — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists -… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
We have lost all our big Australian industries and icons, including Qantas when it sold 25 per cent of its shares and… — Pauline Hanson Copy Share Image
There are people who think that uniting with people who think that the country is irredeemably evil is not in our best… — Mollie Hemingway Copy Share Image
Love longs to be free, a stranger to every worldly desire, lest its inner vision become dimmed, and lest worldly self-interest hinder… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia. — Al Franken Copy Share Image
The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Where self-interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellsprings of initiative and… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
When people have no interest in a subject, it's very hard to get them to laugh about it. — George Meyer Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in getting kids involved in things where there's a shared interest because that's where they can have friends. — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
My interest in theatre and storytelling began in my mother's kitchen. It was a meeting place for my mother's large circle of… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image