How can there ever possibly be a conflict between my private interests and the public good? — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
It's not controversial to say that private donors come with private interests. — Leslyn Lewis Copy Share Image
No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with… — Neil Abercrombie Copy Share Image
When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Anybody who cares about the functioning of democracy should be concerned about the blurring of lines between public and private interests. — Alexander Stille Copy Share Image
The public good is promoted best by people pursuing their own private interests. This bothers some people because they're more concerned with… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
I'm still going to do television. I'm just not going to do morning television. I would like to do some things that… — Bryant Gumbel Copy Share Image
Our entire political system is financed by wealthy private interests buying politicians and making sure the rules are written in their favor. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I have a cause higher and nobler than my own, a cause to which all private interests and concerns must be subordinated. — Leila Khaled Copy Share Image
The prison industrial complex is perhaps, at least domestically, the most striking example of us putting profit before people. It all stems… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
If the Government gets into business on any large scale, we soon find that the beneficiaries attempt to play a large part… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“Though those different plans were, perhaps, first introduced by the private interests and prejudices of particular orders of men, without any regard… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a number of individuals, the idea that 'the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I don't use my money to gain political influence for my private interests, which is what many rich people do, and what,… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Each pursues his private interest and only his private interest; and thereby serves the private interests of all, the general interest, without… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
