A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests. Votes: 2
Niccolo MachiavelliWe have no permanent allies, only permanent interests. Votes: 0
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount PalmerstonThere are no permanent alliances, only permanent interests. Votes: 0
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount PalmerstonWestern interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms. Votes: 0
Malcolm XStereotypes work to help divide women from recognizing their common interests. Votes: 0
Melissa Harris-PerryI will stand up for families against powerful interests, against corporations. Votes: 0
Hillary ClintonThere are no permanent friends or permanent enemies, just permanent interests. Votes: 0
Carol Moseley BraunIsraeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests. Votes: 0
Bashar al-AssadCorporate and government surveillance aren't separate; they're an alliance of interests. Votes: 0
Bruce SchneierAlliances and partnerships produce stability when they reflect realities and interests. Votes: 0
Stephen KinzerWe really believe our national interests are identical with European interests. Votes: 0
Gerhard SchroderA free and democratic Arab world aligns with America's security interests. Votes: 0
Cynthia P. SchneiderIf you're long-term oriented, customer interests and shareholder interests are aligned. Votes: 0
Jeff BezosVery few politicians in Washington really represent the interests of many people. Votes: 0
Sally SatelYour deep interests should always have a dog-eared place on your nightstand. Votes: 0
Douglas WilsonTrue friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals. Votes: 0
C. S. LewisPsychological pseudoscience dies hard, especially when there are commercial interests at stake. Votes: 0
Paul GibbonsCollectivism requires self-sacrifice, the subordination of one's interests to those of others. Votes: 0
Ayn RandJarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeWhen you start attacking cronyism and peoples political interests, it gets nasty. Votes: 0
Charles KochBy not sharing our interests, talents and abilities, we limit our possibilities. Votes: 0
Angela Burt-MurrayBe influenced by nothing but your clients' interests. Tell them the truth. Votes: 0
Arthur C. NielsenWhen you start attacking cronyism and people's political interests, it gets nasty. Votes: 0
Charles KochA garden is mainly ...a space around which interests can be accumulated. Votes: 0
Graham Stuart ThomasRefusing to deal with numbers rarely serves the interests of the least well-off. Votes: 0
Thomas PikettyThe internal affairs of other countries has a big impact on American interests. Votes: 0
Paul WolfowitzThe common man is impelled and controlled by interests; the superior, by ideas. Votes: 0
John Lancaster SpaldingIt is a happy coincidence between what my constituents believe and my interests. Votes: 0
Jay InsleeThe only transformation that interests me is a total transformation - however minute Votes: 0
Susan SontagWikiLeaks combines several of my prior interests in technology, policy questions, and journalism. Votes: 0
Charles FergusonOur own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably. Votes: 0
Blaise PascalThe interests of all Cypriots would be advanced with a bizonal bicommunal federation. Votes: 0
Barack ObamaThe individual is losing significance; his destiny is no longer what interests us. Votes: 0
Ludwig Mies van der RoheYour influence is determined by how abundantly you place other people's interests first. Votes: 0
Bob BurgThere's always an important person who helps support your interests and encourages you. Votes: 0
Paul SmithThe predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests. Votes: 0
Breyten BreytenbachMost men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves. Votes: 0
Arthur SchopenhauerIt is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil. Votes: 0
John Maynard KeynesCommerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests. Votes: 0
James A. GarfieldFascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state's. Votes: 0
Benito MussoliniPolitics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests. Votes: 0
P. T. BarnumWhat interests me most is whether God could have made the world differently. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinEthical decisions ensure that everyone's best interests are protected. When in doubt, don't. Votes: 0
Harvey MackayI believe that global common interests are a good foundation for finding solutions together. Votes: 0
Vladimir PutinWe pay a price when special interests win out over the collective national interest. Votes: 0
Chris ChristieFamiliarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds. Votes: 0
Antoine RivarolOf all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health. Votes: 0
George Bernard ShawThe resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries. Votes: 0
Omar BongoPeople getting their fundamental interests wrong is what American political life is all about. Votes: 0
Thomas FrankMan's earthly interests,'are all hooked and buttoned together, and held up, by Clothes. Votes: 0
Thomas CarlyleHow can a country that is impoverished, humiliated and beaten defend its national interests? Votes: 0
Ivica DacicShared interests are great, but not essential. Shared emotional states are what you're after. Votes: 0
Max WeissThe liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests. Votes: 0
Ralph NaderIn the United States national security interests to have a working relationship with Russia. Votes: 0
Katrina vanden HeuvelExorcism is a subject that interests me, and books on shamanism, I've read through. Votes: 0
William S. BurroughsEverywhere you turn you see Americans sacrifice their long-term interests for a short-term reward. Votes: 0
Michael LewisPeople are much more fascinated by your interests than they are by your opinions. Votes: 0
Arlene FrancisTo cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations. Votes: 0
Robert Louis StevensonNational languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry. Votes: 0
Edward SapirExtreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves. Votes: 0
Naomi KleinPeople ask me about my interests outside football, but I haven't really got any. Votes: 0
Brian McDermottEssentially, I'm, most of all, a writer. So, what makes people tick interests me. Votes: 0
Melvin Van PeeblesYou can't build a society purely on interests, you need a sense of belonging Votes: 0
Valery Giscard d'EstaingOne's range [of ideas] is limited by one's interests and imagination and by one's passion. Votes: 0
Jasper Johns...in serving the best interests of children, we serve the best interests of all humanity. Votes: 0
Carol BellamyWe must recognize that every nation determines its policies in terms of its own interests. Votes: 0
John F. KennedyNot to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests. Votes: 0
Idries ShahEvil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests. Votes: 0
Alain BadiouTrue leadership is servanthood. Put the interests of others at the center of your decisions. Votes: 0
Dave RamseyPoverty makes people do reckless things, but [the rich] do worse to protect their [interests] Votes: 0
Immortal TechniqueCurrent education policy is not in the interests of women. An injustice is being perpetrated. Votes: 0
James TooleyI love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me. Votes: 0
Patrick FischlerNo public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests. Votes: 0
Mark TwainOnly talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution. Votes: 0
Vladimir NabokovIf Russia's interests and security are threatened, Russia will resist. Everyone needs to know that. Votes: 0
Vladimir PutinI went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy. Votes: 0
Stephen Cole KleeneYou just don't invade another country on phony pretext in order to assert your interests! Votes: 0
John F. KerryHow people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me. Votes: 0
Noam ChomskyWe need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics. Votes: 0
Tom DaschleA window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person, Votes: 0
Saul LeiterParalysis of leadership is due in part to the unseen grip of the special interests. Votes: 0
John W. GardnerWhat interests me most is neither still life nor landscape: it is the human figure. Votes: 0
Henri MatisseThe gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away Votes: 0
John Warren KindtOne just has to look at the thing from a perspective that interests you personally. Votes: 0
Zadie SmithLittle does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his physician his heir. Votes: 0
Publilius SyrusThe more neurotic and evasive a person is, the shorter the range of his interests. Votes: 0
Ayn RandA person's behavior is rational if it is in his best interests, given his information Votes: 0
Robert AumannPeople in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved. Votes: 0
Teresa of AvilaThe graphic novel form really interests me and I like the freedom that format offers. Votes: 0
Walter HillIâve been round the world several times and now only banality still interests me, Votes: 0
Chris MarkerWe need to defend the interests of those whom we've never met and never will. Votes: 0
Jeffrey SachsWe need to defend the interests of those whom we've never met and never will. Votes: 0
Jeffrey D. SachsDeath is half disarmed when the pleasures and interests of the flesh are first denied. Votes: 0
Richard BaxterBy forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry. Votes: 0
Jack DempseyMen are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests. Votes: 0
George William NorrisIt is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests. Votes: 0
Ivy Compton-BurnettMen are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests. Votes: 0
George W. NorrisHow could he encapsulate in a pithy admissions-interview line all of his unique ideas and interests? Votes: 0
Alexandra RobbinsEverything I did as secretary of state was in furtherance of America's interests and our values. Votes: 0
Hillary ClintonIt's the not the subject that interests me as much as my perception of the subject. Votes: 0
Roy DeCaravaThose who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society. Votes: 0
James MadisonEvery restriction of trade creates vested interests that are from then on opposed to its removal. Votes: 0
Ludwig von MisesWhat interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats. Votes: 0
Paulo CoelhoI have fought against spending. I have fought against special interests. I have fought for reform. Votes: 0
Barack ObamaIt's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion. Votes: 0
Isaac AsimovNo mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests. Votes: 0
SallustWhat interests me the most is expressing what's in nature, in the visible world, that is. Votes: 0
Giorgio MorandiWhat really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinTo have acted otherwise ... would have been the betrayal of the interests of the United States. Votes: 0
Theodore RooseveltI write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience. Votes: 0
Jonathan CarrollThe British countryside is threatened by people and interests who really do not care for it Votes: 0
Simon JenkinsI cannot say Who Art in Heaven-If all my interests and pursuits are in earthly things. Votes: 0
Ken BlanchardDonald Trump abuses his power, games the system, puts his own interests ahead of the country's. Votes: 0
Hillary ClintonJewelry is something that has to do with emotion. That aspect of jewelry really interests me. Votes: 0
Ann DemeulemeesterThe sexuality of children - there's a lot friction there. That tension interests me a lot. Votes: 0
Michael GiraA world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor. Votes: 0
Agnes RepplierI never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all. Votes: 0
Daniel Day-LewisOnly love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love. Votes: 0
Marc ChagallSo long as we mayhavean independent Judiciary, the great interests of the people will be safe. Votes: 0
John RutledgeIt is in the interests of both sexes to hear the other sex's experience of powerlessness. Votes: 0
Warren FarrellHow can there ever possibly be a conflict between my private interests and the public good? Votes: 0
Ashleigh BrilliantI couldn't imagine doing a show where I'd once again have to answer to corporate interests. Votes: 0
Rosie O'DonnellI have to look out for the shareholderâs interests, and Iâm the largest shareholder. Votes: 0
Carl IcahnUnless a subject interests me, I'll pass it over and save my film for better things. Votes: 0
Andreas FeiningerIt's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever. Votes: 0
Susan B. AnthonyGeography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work. Votes: 0
Yves TanguyIf you need to pursue your interests, do not expect anyone else to do it for you. Votes: 0
Dalia GrybauskaiteThis is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me Votes: 0
Walt WhitmanThe shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. Votes: 0
StendhalBut I felt that most of us in the world today gave priority to our personal interests. Votes: 0
Paul HoffmanShoes are just a pedestal. What interests me is the power of the woman who wears them. Votes: 0
Christian LouboutinBefore he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel. Votes: 0
George SantayanaThe essentials of leadership are all about the use of one's talent in the interests of society. Votes: 0
James GobboSome interests have got a footing on the earth which we have not made sufficient allowance for. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauThe welfare of our children is our main concern and their best interests are our first priority Votes: 0
Eddie MurphyTastes are created by the business interests. How else can you explain the popularity of Al Hirt? Votes: 0
Charles MingusWe have allowed the interests of capital to outweigh the interests of human beings and our Earth. Votes: 0
Desmond TutuIn all cases our stance will be determined by what serves the interests of the Palestinian people. Votes: 0
Ahmed YassinIn the interests of economy they condemned hundreds of children to death and I call it murder. Votes: 0
James MaxtonBut I think that sensitivity is also a good counsellor when it comes to enforcing one's interests. Votes: 0
Johannes RauWhat interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place. Votes: 0
Calvin TrillinThe interests of the corporation state are to convert all the riches of the earth into dollars. Votes: 0
William O. DouglasI have no regrets whatsoever that I have acted in a way to advance my country's interests Votes: 0
Susan RiceI've reached the moment where the movement of my thought interests me more than the thought itself. Votes: 0
Pablo PicassoThe interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties. Votes: 0
Thomas JeffersonThe great interests of man: air and light, the joy of having a body, the voluptuousness of looking. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldIt is in all our interests that the arteries of global trade are kept free, open and running. Votes: 0
Philip HammondIf any agreement between two nations is to last, it must serve the best interests of both nations. Votes: 0
Jimmy CarterA clever man should handle his interests so that each will fall in suitable order of their value. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldCommunity is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own. Votes: 0
Henri NouwenThe interests we share as human beings are far more powerful than the forces that drive us apart. Votes: 0
Barack ObamaThe only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it. Votes: 0
Leon RedboneWhat interests me is seeing a problem and doing something about it, not all of the stuff around it. Votes: 0
Lauren BushI don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark. Votes: 0
Carter BurwellThe wonderful thing about acting is that you can use all of your talents and interests in your work. Votes: 0
Jeff BridgesIn the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman. Votes: 0
Leon KassI have a really wide range of interests and I've still got time to work out my exact direction. Votes: 0
Caroline WozniackiI never think about my best interests. I think about what's the right thing to do in a situation. Votes: 0
Clive PalmerThe history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present. Votes: 0
Ernest DimnetPhotography is about how you look and how you dream and how you see and what your interests are. Votes: 0
David DoubiletAs far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become. Votes: 0
Jean-Paul SartreTo be true to the mythical conception of a God is to be false to the interests of mankind. Votes: 0
E. Haldeman-Julius... a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear. Votes: 0
E.A. Bucchianeria true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear. Votes: 0
E.A. BucchianeriOne of my interests in music has always been what it means, why it affects us the way it does. Votes: 0
Tod MachoverI really don't work to a plan, but I just do what interests me and what I like to do. Votes: 0
Aishwarya Rai BachchanOnly reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair. Votes: 0
Alberto GiacomettiI am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors. Votes: 0
Yuri MilnerLife is sort of a circle. You come back to a lot of the interests that you had early in life. Votes: 0
Eric KandelThe easiest way for me to lose interests is to know too much of what I want to say before I begin. Votes: 0
William Matthews