Interests Quotes
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If you look at capitalism and patriarchy, they're both such hierarchical, competitive, oneupmanship systems. They've trained us all to think that power means having all the goods or having the most money or having the most attention or having the most fame. That's not the power that interests me. Actually, the deconstruction of that power is what interests me.
Eve Ensler
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We are soldiers who devote ourselves to arms not for the invasion of other countries, but for the defense of our own, not for the gratification of our private interests but for public security.
Nathanael Greene
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My emotions, instincts, and interests are all with nature.
Eliot Porter
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How can a country that is impoverished, humiliated and beaten defend its national interests?
Ivica Dacic
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We want in the UK to have a good trading relationship with the EU. I think that's in our interests, I think that's in their interests as well. I want to continue to be cooperating on criminal justice, on security and defense, with the EU, I think that's important for the safety of Europe.
Theresa May
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This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me.
Walt Whitman
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For some reason, our media are fascinated by stories that appear to harm American National interests.
Bob Tyrrell
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It is the misfortune of all miscellaneous political combinations, that with the purest motives of their more generous members are ever mixed the most sordid interests and the fiercest passions of mean confedes.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas — no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.
Alexandre Dumas
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Can Protagonist think of a single film that interests him as much as the three-hundredth best book he ever read?
David Markson
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The American people need to know if public servants are operating in the best interests of the United States or the Kremlin.
Raja Krishnamoorthi
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We're looking out for the financial best interests of the up-and-comer. Everything connects to that.
Noah Kerner
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People are much more fascinated by your interests than they are by your opinions.
Arlene Francis
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Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people’s anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed; that they gamble – yes, gamble – with a whole part of their life and their so called 'vital interests.
Albert Camus
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As the great naturalist Charles Darwin saw clearly, individual and collective interests often coincide, as in the invisible hand narrative. But he also saw that in many other cases, interests at the two levels are squarely in conflict, and that in those cases, individual interests generally trump. That simple observation suggests that market failure is often the result not of insufficient competition (the traditional charge from social critics on the Left), but of the very logic of competition itself.
Bob Frank
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The Communist leaders in Moscow, Peking and Hanoi must fully understand that the United States considers the freedom of South Viet Nam vital to our interests. And they must know that we are not bluffing in our determination to defend those interests.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
