Quotes About Interests

That our enthusiasms and passions are an important part of our personality and if you take them away you remove something very fundamental.

I place no value on anything I have or may possess, except in relation to the kingdom of God. If anything will advance the interests of the kingdom, it shall be given away or kept, only as by giving or keeping it I shall most promote the glory of Him to whom I owe all my hopes in time or eternity.

For my part, I sincerely esteem the Constitution, a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests.

There are interests by the sacrifice of which peace is too dearly purchased. One should never be at peace to the shame of his own soul--to the violation of his integrity or of his allegiance to God.

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.

Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good.

How can there ever possibly be a conflict between my private interests and the public good?

I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn't very good, so my interests lay elsewhere.

Zuckerberg had the good sense to know both his own limitations and interests. He wanted an executive who would free him to do what he loved: code, and enhancing the Facebook platform.

There's one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, - no doubt we are, - but your certainty that your opinions are pearls.

There are many special interests skilful at manipulating circumstances and communications in such a way as to benefit their own ends and not necessarily the public good.

The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.

Every line in the government's budget has its own constituency.

There is danger that totalitarian governments, not subject to vigorous popular debate, will underestimate the will and unity of democratic societies where vital interests are concerned.

What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil.

Whenever government proposes to get involved in the regulation of trade, just be very, very careful about who's behind this proposal, what their motives are.

The connection which formerly existed between the Government and banks was in reality injurious to both, as well as to the general interests of the community at large.

After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests.

To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.

Any big organization can be subverted by governments or multinational special interests. They have the resources to cast doubt and fear over any group they feel threatened by.

Governments have a favorite phrase: "lean and mean." But they've been made very, very fat for corporate interests.

When government disappears, its not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.

Half the population hold that the government is run by a few big interests looking out for themselves, as polls regularly show.

So much of great American drama has been about a certain kind of dysfunctional family, and maybe my interests are in the kind of strange dysfunction that exists even among deeply functional families.