Quotes about Interest

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

The strength of government does not consist of anything within itself, but in the attachment of a nation, and the interest which a people feel in supporting it.

It is always the interest of a far greater number of people in a nation to have things right, than to let them remain wrong; and when public matters are open to debate, and the public judgment free, it will not decide wrong, unless it decides to hastily.

Though in a plan of which justice and humanity are the foundation principles, interest ought not to be admitted into the calculation, yet it is always of advantage to the establishment of any plan to show that it is beneficial as a matter of interest. The success of any proposed plan submitted to public consideration must finally depend on the numbers interested in supporting it, united with the justice of its principles.

By having a change wrought in thee. 'But ye are washed, but ye are sanctified.' I Cor 6: 2: Whence we are changed, a tenebris ad lucem [from darkness to light], so changed, as if another soul did live in the same body. By this change we are interested in the unchangeable

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.

I ain't got an original thought in my head. If it ain't got the scent of divinity to it, I ain't interested in it

Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course, you are interested in what you want. You are eternally interested in it. But no one else is. The rest of us are just like you: we are interested in what we want.

We are interested in others when they are interested in us.

Today is life - the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto