Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Let not the tie be mercenary, though the service is measured in money. Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Many men who do creditable things refuse to let it be known. This is a mistake. While we all admire modesty, nevertheless… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
When I said "the pocket of the banks," it is not necessarily a mercenary relationship. It is a mindset. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
“If I die, I want to die for something I believe in and take my word for it, there isn’t much out… — Joni Hahn Copy Share Image
Maxim 6: If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries — Howard Tayler Copy Share Image
That public virtue which among the ancients was denominated patriotism, is derived from a strong sense of our own interest in the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Hi. I'm here to enlist. You can't. You aren't human. You see, little fella, we don't do sociological stuff like "interspeciated workplaces."… — Howard Tayler Copy Share Image
“It is very easy to be a military strategist, a mercenary, or a king, but much harder to be a father.” — Nadia Scrieva Copy Share Image
It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship. But get real, when everyone is bailing out, you don't… — Robbie Fowler Copy Share Image
Music is my love and to me acting is more mercenary. I don't pound the pavements for roles: if it happens, it… — David Johansen Copy Share Image
For all the gold and silver stolen and shipped to Spain did not make the Spanish people richer. It gave their kings… — Hans Koning Copy Share Image
“So you're a fellow mercenary, then." "Does this mean you'll afford me some professional courtesy?" "Don't ask for that. All it means… — Howard Tayler Copy Share Image
We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish. It is vain… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
In a culture where the possibility of wealth and the acquisition of things is so defining of success, we end up pursuing… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
There can be no freedom in the large sense of the word, no harmonious development, so long as mercenary and commercial considerations… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest. — Moliere Copy Share Image
Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own… — George Washington Copy Share Image
So many of us had been armed that there were holsters and weapons scattered among the passed-out bodies like mercenary prizes in… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
"A child!" said Edith, looking at her. "When was I a child? What childhood did you ever leave to me? I was… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
As for my family, my father was Danel; he died as a mercenary in the southern wars," Han went on. "My mother's… — Cinda Williams Chima Copy Share Image
Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren't. — David Gill Copy Share Image
