Interests Quotes - page 2

Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament. (Edmund Burke)
I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
Ideal legislators do not vote their interests. View quote
John Rawls
A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various powerful interests, combined in one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in banks. View quote
John C. Calhoun
When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place. View quote
Lawrence Lessig
Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace. View quote
Ingrid Newkirk
The fact that the president was willing to reveal classified information for political gain and put the interests of his political party ahead of America's security shows that he can no longer be trusted to keep America safe. View quote
Howard Dean
The thing that interests me is that today painters do not have to go to a subject-matter outside themselves. Modern painters work in a different way. They work from within. View quote
Jackson Pollock
It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. View quote
Doris Lessing
Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play. View quote
Carl Orff
I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life. (Lalu Prasad Yadav)
The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves. View quote
Marcel Duchamp
By virtue of the way it has organized its technological base, contemporary industrial society tends to be totalitarian. For "totalitarian" is not only a terroristic political coordination of society, but also a non-terroristic economic-technical coordination which operates through the manipulation of needs by vested interests. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape. View quote
A. C. Benson
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty, her theatre of expressions. He wants the minute secret reflection between them, the depth of field minimal, their foreignness intimate like two pages of a closed book. View quote
Michael Ondaatje
Unions should not be lapdogs to a political party, they should be watchdogs for their members interests. View quote
Andy Stern
Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together. View quote
Oscar Arias Sanchez
People who act against their own best interests are interesting characters. View quote
Paul Schrader
As such people achieve influence within the organization, whenever there is a conflict between their own interest and the interest of the organization, their interests will win out. (Robert Shea)
I have a lot of weird interests, but everything I do is artistic. View quote
Ansel Elgort
Alliances and partnerships produce stability when they reflect realities and interests. View quote
Stephen Kinzer
The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives. View quote
Arthur C. Brooks
What interests me is what children go through while growing up. View quote
Beverly Cleary