Ideas may be superior to vested interest. They are also very often the children of vested interest. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with the superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in reach… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
East Asia confirms the superior capacity of industrial capitalism in raising the material standard of living of large masses of people. — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
Second-rate knowledge, and middling talents, carry a man farther at courts, and in the busy part of the world, than superior knowledge… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Quality doesn't mean deep blacks and whatever tonal range. That's not quality, that's a kind of quality. The pictures of Robert Frank… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
The theory behind representative government is that superior men-or at least men not inferior to the average in ability and integrity-are chosen… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
When the common good of a society is regarded as something apart from and superior to the individual good of its members,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
For I assure you, without travel, at least for people from the arts and sciences, one is a miserable creature!... A man… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
We Jews regard our race as superior to all humanity, and look forward, not to its ultimate union with other races, but… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack… — Alcibiades Copy Share Image
Blasphemy and prayer are one. Both assert the existence of a superior power. The first, however, with conviction. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Only that which points the human spirit beyond its own limitations into what is universally human gives the individual strength superior to… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I was indeed a snob, if you agree with this definition: 'A person who believes that their tastes in a particular area… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A superior man may be made to go to the well, but he cannot be made to go down into it. He… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Mockery is an important social tool for squelching stupidity. I’ve never seen anyone change his mind because of the power of a… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
I passionately feel that as long as we view ourselves as superior and other animals as exploitable our consciousness will remain stuck… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
The celebrated Adam Smith was the first to point out the immense increase of production, and the superior perfection of products referable… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
Communism and fascism or nazism, although poles apart in their intellectual content, are similar in this, that both have emotional appeal to… — James A.C. Brown Copy Share Image
No democracy is born perfect, and none ever gets to be perfect. Yet democracy is superior to authoritarian and totalitarian regimes because,… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
