Quotes About Disinterested

I'm not a partisan.

The fifth point I would like to mention is how faith in disinterested perception in the modern sciences has been shaken, particularly by the events in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Physics, the previously unchallenged ruling discipline of the natural sciences, lost its innocence at the latest because of

Generosity is, by definition, disinterested." (p.157)

Oh, I'm not really bothered what people say.

It's just that,well,I'm gonna pull a Brad on you." "You're going to start totally ignoring me?

Insofar as he does not usually see himself singled out as the individual victim of a personal conspiracy,1 he is somewhat more rational and much more disinterested. His sense that his political passions are unselfish and patriotic, in fact, goes far to intensify his feeling of righteousness and his moral indignation.

The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested.

We're not disinterested in politics. It's just that politicians are disinteresting.

We are happy in proportion as we believe ourselves and our life to be of value; and few people are so disinterested or so conceited as to trust wholly to their own judgment in this matter.

Being above the petty factional and emotional fights of the bureaucracy, being of course neither a man of the right or of the left but disinterested and realistic, which meant that all things being equal, he was more a man of the status quo than anything else.

When principles are so absurd and so destructive of human society, it may safely be averred, that the more sincere and the more disinterested they are, they only become the more ridiculous and the more odious.

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

If the love and pursuit of literature do not make a man more independent in character, more disinterested in his reasonings, more elevated in his views, they will not have done for him what I should have expected from them.

You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.

Law is not as disinterested as our concepts of law pretend; law serves power; law in large measure is a recapitulation of the status quo; it confirms a rigid order designed to insulate the beneficiaries of the status quo from the disturbances of change. The painful truth--one with a long history--is that police are around in large part to guarantee a peaceful disgestion for the rich.

A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment.

The best advice will come from the person who has no personal interest in the matter.

For a time Emerson politely endeavored to conceal his boredom - like most men, he is profoundly disinterested in all children except his own - ...

We are fundamentally politically agnostic and an apolitical organization.

I'm not a politician and don't want any part of politics.

I am not a political person, so I cannot comment on politics.

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

I couldn't care less about being a presenter at the Oscars.