"To be interested in the public good we……" — George Herbert Mead

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• Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
• Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their… — Marie Curie
• The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgement but a terror-ridden refusal to be… — Midge Decter
• Love is nourished only by sacrifices, and the more a soul refuses natural satisfactions, the stronger and more disinterested becomes… — Therese of Lisieux
• Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
• The person giving the advice returns the confidence placed in him with a disinterested eagerness... and he is usually guided… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live; science, everything that sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the… — Remy de Gourmont
• Love never asks what benefit it will derive from love. Love from its very nature is a disinterested thing. It… — Charles Spurgeon
• The Concerned Photographer produces images in which genuine human feeling predominates over commercial cynicism or disinterested formalism. — Cornell Capa
• There is still a tendency to regard any existing government intervention as desirable, to attribute all evils to the market,… — Milton Friedman
• 'Tis folly in one Nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of… — George Washington
• In democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for another, but they show a general compassion for all the human race.… — Alexis de Tocqueville

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