Quotes About Interests

Diversified interests must exist in every community, and that system which is best calculated to promote the general interest is the one which should be adopted and adhered to with fidelity.

It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education in relation to the ends and interests of those who control the power in that society.

civilization depends upon the vigorous pursuit of the highest values by people who are intelligent enough to know that their values are qualified by their interests and corrupted by their prejudices.

that the failure of governments is due to the pressure of economic interest upon them rather than to the "limited capacities of human wisdom.

L'Histoire vraie peut être dangereuse pour certains intérêts politiques, et on est en droit de se demander si ce n'est pas pour cette raison que certaines méthodes, en ce domaine, sont imposées officiellement à l'exclusion de toutes les autres: consciemment ou non, on écarte a priori tout ce qui permettrait de voir clair en bien des choses, et c'est ainsi que se forme l'"opinion publique".

Well." Wolfe was judicious. "You were not under oath. The police have been lied to informally many times by many people, including me. The right to lie in the service of your own interests is highly valued and frequently exercised.

The conception of people acting against their own best interests should not startle us. We see it occasionally in sleep-walking and in politics, every day.

It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that must bind divergent interests together.

In The Wealth of Nations, Smith unveiled one of the most liberating of modern ideas—that the interests of the community could be advanced better by the self-interest than by the "benevolence" of the butcher, the baker and all the other upwardly clambering capitalists.

Loss aversion produces inertia, meaning a strong desire to stick with your current holdings. Loss aversion operates as a kind of cognitive nudge, pressing us not to make changes, even when changes are very much in our interests.

legacy cognitive blindness will forever prevent people from acting in their own best interests.

He was an amateur naturalist, fond of birds and animals but not of humanity in general.

God can never be experienced apart from your best interests being involved.

Interests are what drives the actions of individuals at some fundamental level. Furthermore interests are intensely social phenomena. Other individuals have to be taken into account when an actor attempts to realize her interests; there is also the fact that interests are socially defined.

Bushido refers not only to martial rectitude but personal rectitude. We understand that in serving each other we serve our own interests. In serving our world, our world serves us. Allowing us to live in harmony with it.

My son Asclepius had become the god of medicine by the time he was fifteen, and I couldn't have been happier for him. It left me time for my other interests. Besides, it's every god's dream to have a child who grows up to be a doctor.

The scalding rhetoric of the "pro-life" movement seems to propose the derivative claim that a fetus is from the moment of its conception a full moral person with rights and interests equal in importance to those of any other member of the moral community. But very few people—even those who belong to the most vehemently anti-abortion groups—actually believe that, whatever they say.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

When we talked about the teams and stuff, she asked why Rafe and Sam aren't on any. I said Rafe just moved here, and I don't know what he's into." "And me?" Sam said. "I said you're antisocial.

The term 'globalisation' is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.

Always we must bear in mind that law has to be substituted for power, that care must be taken to serve the interests of law.

The key to understanding the rise in inequality isn't technology or globalization. It's the power of the moneyed interests to shape the underlying rules of the market.

Power lacks moral or principles. It only has interests.

Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and units of power.