Quotes About Interests

It follows that the goal of forecasting is not to see what's coming. It is to advance the interests of the forecaster and the forecaster's tribe.

If it was not in your interests to betray me then you would have been loyal.

Listen, then, says the angry Sophist (Thrasymachus), I proclaim that might is right, and justice is the interest of the stronger. The different forms of government make laws, democratic, aristocratic, or autocratic, with a view to their respective interests; and these laws, so made by them to serve their interests, they deliver to their subjects as justice, and punish as unjust anyone who transgresses them.

thither I went, and sought to persuade every man among you that he must look to himself, and seek virtue and wisdom before he looks to his private interests, and look to the state before he looks to the interests of the state; and that this should be the order which he observes in all his actions.

the rulers make laws for their own interests. But

When ideas are manipulated for personal ends, for class or group interests, the name for this is sophistry.

Interests evolve into hobbies or volunteer work, which grow into passions. It takes time, more time than anyone imagines.

You realized those truths that cut against the interests of the powerful were called lies, and that those lies that served those interests were called truths.

I'm mainly a philatelist, though I know a lot about Tiffany

Or perhaps I should say—what England wants." He held out a glass to Grey, smiling. "For one can hardly separate your interests from those of your country, can one? In fact, I confess that you have always seemed to me to be England, John.

There's an audience for everything.

I'd rather talk about dogs than about me.

I was good at sports - basketball, football, tennis and dropped them all. At 16, I didn't care about sports anymore.

I wasn't really a deep-rooted comic-book dude.

I'm a big Eminem fan, so I like listening to him. My wife doesn't, though.

I got my degree in philosophy and English literature; those were my main interests.

Seriously, until I was 16 or 17, I didn't care about anything other than ESPN.

Images are meanings in the art of Gerald Murnane, who says bluntly (in Words and Silk ): 'The only things that really interest me are images'.

every subject under the sun, was seen only in its relation to vested interests. So complete, so whole-hearted was his preoccupation that after an hour's conversation I began to wonder whether I had not been incredibly naïve in believing there was any other governing motive in human life.

The introvert's main interests are in the inner world of concepts and ideas, while the extravert is more involved with the outer world of people and things.

strong actors have a lower interest in a fight's outcome because their survival is not at stake, whereas weak actors have a high interest in a fight's outcome because their survival is at stake. A strong actor's low interests imply high political vulnerability, and a weak actor's high interests imply low political vulnerability.

An unsound thinker goes where his motives and interests invite him; a sound thinker goes where the argument takes him.

My name is A.J. I like football and video games, and I hate school.

A politician who represents the interests primarily of economic elites must find other means of appealing to the masses. Such alternatives are provided by the politics of nationalism, sectarianism, and identity.