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“I am ever unwilling that [peace] should be disturbed as long as the rights and interests of the nations can be preserved. But whensoever hostile aggressions on these require a resort to war, we must meet our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies.”

World Should Long War Nations Interest Enemy Rights Duty Brave Convince Aggression Hostile Resorts Disturbed Unwilling Just Friends

Book:Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence

Source: Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence

“Since when do we let the government decide what is or isn't good for us? What the hell does Congress know about nutrition, anyway?... If the government can use force whenever something is "in our best interest" then government should force everyone to wake up at 6am every morning for calisthenics in the front yard. Fast food establishments should be torn down and replaced with bars that serve carrot juice and alfalfa sprouts, since - "it's in your best interest." This paternalistic attitude that "the government knows best" and that you are merely a helpless child is insulting and reprehensible.”

“As every writer has his use, every writer ought to have his patrons; and since no man, however high he may now stand, can be certain that he shall not be soon thrown down from his elevation by criticism or caprice, the common interest of learning requires that her sons should cease from intestine hostilities, and, instead of sacrificing each other to malice and contempt, endeavour to avert persecution from the meanest of their fraternity.”

Source: The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with his life, and notes on his Lives of the poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In eleven volumes ...

“The Open Market Committee, as presently established, is plainly not in the public interest. This committee must be operated by purely public servants, representatives of the people as a whole and not any single interest group. The Open Market Committee should be abolished, and its powers transferred to the Federal Reserve Board - the present public members of the committee, with reasonably short terms of office.”

“Also, the Federal Advisory Committee should be enlarged and reorganized. Members should be chosen for the broadest possible representation of the public interest, their main qualification: ability.”

Should Politics Interest Ability Economy Members Chosen Liberalism Representation Committees Qualifications Public Interest Advisory

Author:Wright Patman

“The last point for consideration is the supposed disposition of the people to interfere with the rights of property. So essential does it appear to me, to the cause of good government, that the rights of property should be held sacred, that I would agree to deprive those of the elective franchise against whom it could justly be alleged that they considered it their interest to invade them.”

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Book:The Works of David Ricardo ...

Source: The Works of David Ricardo ...

“Do you doubt that the least effects of nature were not used as marks of the wrath of heaven? It was to the interest of pontiffs, priests, and augurs, as much as it is to the interest of lawyers and doctors that there should be lawsuits and sickness. No wonder they took care that the people should not grow slack in their religion.”

People Should Care Used Heaven Grows Interest Wonder Doubt Atheism Effects Doctors Mark Positive Atheism Lawyer Sickness Priests Wrath Lawsuit

Author:Pierre Bayle

“In a discussion of this kind our interest should be centered not on the weight of the authority but on the weight of the argument. Indeed the authority of those who set out to teach is often an impediment to those who wish to learn. They cease to use their own judgment and regard as gospel whatever is put forward by their chosen teacher.”

Should Kind Use Wish Interest Teach Teacher Atheism Authority Judgment Argument Weight Regard Positive Atheism Cease Chosen Discussion Impediments

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Anybody who cares about the functioning of democracy should be concerned about the blurring of lines between public and private interests.”

Should Care Interest Lines Democracy Concerned Who Cares

Author:Alexander Stille

“When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived.”

Ifs Men Should Book Self Reason Interest Honesty Print Deceived Self Interest Pennies Incline Purchasers

Book:Essays on Men and Manners

Source: Essays on Men and Manners

“continuing sexual interest and perfect sexual adjustment between partners who have been together for thirty years is so difficult and rare that no one should feel guilty or inadequate for not having managed it.”

Feels Should Years Has Beens Together Sex Difficult Interest Perfect Partners Guilty Thirty Continuing Adjustment Inadequate Thirty Years

Author:Germaine Greer

“A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows; One should our interests and our passions be, My friend must hate the man that injures me.”

Knows Men Should Hate Passion Interest Friendship He Man Cold My Friends Mediums Generous Resentment One Love

Book:The Iliad

Source: The Iliad

“The authentic and pure values, truth, beauty, and goodness, in the activity of a human being are the result of one and the same act, a certain application of the full attention to the object. Teaching should have no aim but to prepare, by training the attention, for the possibility of such an act. All the other advantages of instruction are without interest.”

Source: Gravity and Grace

“Nothing is more maddening than being questioned by the object of one's interest about the object of hers, should that object not be you.”

Should Interest Objects Be You

Book:Under the Net: A Novel

Source: Under the Net: A Novel

“Any proposals for the future, while they should use to the full the experience gathered in the past, should not be restricted by consideration of sectional interests established in the obtaining of that experience. Now, when the war is abolishing landmarks of every kind, is the opportunity for using experience in a clear field. A revolutionary moment in the world's history is a time for revolutions, not for patching.”

World Should Kind War Moments Use Past Opportunity Interest Clear Fields Revolution Revolutionary Consideration Proposal Obtaining Landmarks

Author:William Beveridge

“There are interests by the sacrifice of which peace is too dearly purchased. One should never be at peace to the shame of his own soul--to the violation of his integrity or of his allegiance to God.”

Should Soul Peace Interest Sacrifice Integrity Shame Violation Allegiance

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“The way I see it, commercial interests should manage a lunar base while NASA gets on with the really important task of flying to Mars.”

Way Should Important Interest Tasks Flying Manage Mars Nasa

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“I want a president who'll look out for American interests. Every treaty we sign has a provision that a president of the United States, if he or she concludes that it's no longer in the interest of the country should step back from it.”

Ifs Want Should Looks Country States President Interest United Steps United States Provision Treaties

Author:Lindsey Graham

“A writer writes what interests him and what he can manage, and what he can make live, as Flannery O'Connor said. So my reaction to someone saying "You must!" or "You should!" or even "Hey, why don't you?" is basically to sort of shrug and politely walk off and do whatever I want to do. It's nobody else's business, really, and even if I happened to agree with one of those "musts" or "shoulds" what would I do about it, if my heart wasn't in it?”

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Author:George Saunders

“Now, if we understand what unlucky persons are, we shall see that they are to be shunned, or that we are to consort with them only out of kindness or from sympathy, but without joining our interests with theirs; for they are persons who are not harmonious with the condition of things around them, and are as much at issue with life as a bird who should try to live in the water, or a fish to float in the air.”

Ifs Should Trying Persons Interest Water Kindness Issues Air Conditions Bird Luck Fishes Floats Joining Harmonious Unlucky

Author:James Vila Blake

“All American and Israeli goods and products should be boycotted in a way that undermines American and Israeli interests so as to act as deterrence to their war against Muslims and Islam that is being waged under the pretence of fighting terrorism. This boycott should become an overwhelming trend that makes these two states feel that their economies are in a real and actual danger.”

Way Feels Should Two War Real States Fighting Interest Economy Danger Products Islam Terrorism Goods Trends Overwhelming Israeli Pretense Boycott Fighting Terrorism Deterrence

Author:Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

“To break boundaries interests me. With all the knowledge that is available now in the world, it should be accessible to everyone. You can get so much information on the Internet now, and yet there are so many places in the world where people just don't have the education.”

People World Should Interest Break Information Internet Available Boundaries Places In The World

Author:Melanie Griffith

“A constant tension exists between an individual's interests, personal needs, and skills, and what the organization requires of her. We've all asked ourselves, How much of my own agenda should I sacrifice in order to help the rest of the staff meet the company's goals?”

Needs Should Helping Order Individual Goal Interest My Own Company Sacrifice Skills Organization Constant Tension Agendas Should I Staff Personal Needs

Author:Pat Heim

“Property should be in a certain sense common, but, as a general rule, private; for, when every one has a distinct interest, men will not complain of one another, and they will make more progress, because every one will be attending to his own business.”

Men Should Certain Interest Common Progress Property Complaining Communism Own Business Attending

Book:Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

“Since the whole city has one end, it is manifest that education should be one and the same for all, and that it should be public, and not private - not as at present, when every one looks after his own children separately, and gives them separate instruction of the sort which he thinks best; the training in things which are of common interest should be the same for all. Neither must we suppose that any one of the citizens belongs to himself, for they all belong to the state, and are each of them a part of the state, and the care of each part is inseparable from the care of the whole.”

Thinking Giving Should Looks Children Ends States Whole Care Interest Common Cities Education Citizens Training Manifest Instruction Inseparable Common Interests

Book:Aristotle

Source: Aristotle

“That is to say, under the old way any time we wish to add to the national wealth we are compelled to add to the national debt. Now, that is what Henry Ford wants to prevent. He thinks it is stupid, and so do I, that for the loan of $30,000,000 of their own money the people of the United States should be compelled to pay $66,000,000 - that is what it amounts to, with interest.”

People Thinking Way Want Should States Wish Interest Wealth United Pay United States Stupid Amount Add Investing Debt Compelled Loan National Debt Old Ways

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“I want everyone to keep the property that he has acquired for himself according to the principle: benefit to the community precedes benefit to the individual. But the state should retain supervision and each property owner should consider himself appointed by the state. It is his duty not to use his property against the interests of others among his own people. This is the crucial matter. The Third Reich will always retain its right to control the owners of property.”

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Author:Adolf Hitler

“I think the most important thing you can do is to keep drawing no matter what. And to not be afraid of drawing whatever interests you. If there is something that you want to draw, to make, then I think you should pursue it and not let anybody tell you that you cant do it.”

Ifs Thinking Want Should Important Matter Interest Can Do Draws No Matter What Important Things Drawing Pursue Cant

Author:Brian Selznick

“It's a tribal state, and it always will be. Whether we like it or not, whenever we withdraw from Afghanistan, whether it's now or years from now, we'll have an incendiary situation. Should we stay and play traffic cop? I don't think that serves our strategic interests.”

Thinking Should Years States Play Interest Situation Afghanistan Cop Traffic Strategic

Author:Jon Huntsman, Jr.

“That men have an interest in knowing the world which surrounds them, and consequently that their reflection should have been applied to it at an early date, is something that everyone will readily admit.”

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Author:Emile Durkheim

“The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interests of the desire to know-it involves suppression of hopes and fears, loves and hates, and the whole subjective emotional life, until we become subdued to the material, able to see it frankly, without preconceptions, without bias, without any wish except to see it as it is, and without any belief that what it is must be determined by some relation, positive or negative, to what we should like it to be, or to what we can easily imagine it to be.”

Source: Mysticism and Logic

“Any military force should be dictated by the vital national security interests of the United States. And if and when we use force, we should use overwhelming force for a clearly stated objective. And then when we're done, we should get the heck out.”

Ifs Should States Done Use Force Interest United United States Security Military Objectives Overwhelming National Security Military Force Ifs And Overwhelming Force

Author:Ted Cruz

“A smart policy should be one that tends to receive the capitals, pays the price for that capital - which is the interest - returns the capital and in the end the factories, the industries, are left to remain in the country.”

Should Ends Country Left Interest Pay Policy Industry Return Smart Factories Pay The Price

Author:Fidel Castro

“In relations between the states ... the interests of the country should be correlated with the interests of other countries, and compromise is to be found when resolving the most complex issues.”

Should Country States Found Interest Issues Relation Complexes Compromise Other Countries

Author:Vladimir Putin

“The most realistic distinction between the investor and the speculator is found in their attitude toward stock-market movements. The speculator's primary interest lies in anticipating and profiting from market fluctuations. The investor's primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices. Market movements are important to him in a practical sense, because they alternately create low price levels at which he would be wise to buy and high price levels at which he certainly should refrain from buying and probably would be wise to sell.”

“I have less time, less tolerance for bullshit, more interest in good taste, more confidence in my own judgement. The culture with which I surround myself is a reflection of my personality and the circumstances of my life, which is in part how it should be.”

Should Culture Interest My Own Personality Circumstances Taste Reflection Tolerance Judgement Surround Bullshit Good Taste

Book:Songbook

Source: Songbook

“Our immigration policy should be driven by what is in the best interest of this great country and the American people. Comprehensive immigration reform will strengthen U.S. security and boost economic growth.”

People Should Country Growth Interest Economic Security Policy Driven Immigration Reform Economic Growth Comprehensive Boost Immigration Reform Great Country Immigration Policy

Author:Charles Rangel

“It is ordinarily said that criminal law is designed to protect property and to protect persons, and if society's only interest in controlling sex behavior were to protect persons, then the criminal codes concerned with assault and battery should provide adequate protection. The fact that there is a body of sex laws which is apart from the laws protecting persons is evidence of their distinct function, namely that of protecting custom.”

Source: Sexual Behavior in the Human Male

“Unions should not be lapdogs to a political party, they should be watchdogs for their members interests.”

Should Political Interest Party Members Unions Political Parties

Author:Andy Stern

“All economic and political institutions are contrivances that should serve the interests of the people. When they fail to do so, they should be replaced by something more responsive, more just, and more democratic. Marx said this, and so did Jefferson. It is a revolutionary doctrine, and very much an American one.”

People Should Said Political Interest Failing Economic Institutions Democratic Doctrine Revolutionary Replaced Political Institutions

Book:Democracy for the Few

Source: Democracy for the Few

“I've always been timid. I wait for the mating signal, yet I want to show my interest, but I'm too goddamn bashful to go for it! I have no sympathy for wolves. Why can't a man wait and see if there is any interest in them? Every woman wants to be pursued, it's a courting dance, a mating game and it should be that way, played out. The world is full of creeps.”

Ifs Men World Way Want Should Shows Games Waiting Interest Signals Pursued Creeps Women Want Mating No Sympathy Bashful

Author:Anton Szandor LaVey

“We will create life from inanimate compounds, and we will find life in space. But the life that should more immediately interest us lies between these extremes, in the middle range we all inhabit between our genes and our stars.”

Should Lying Stars Interest Space Middle Extremes Range Genes Compounds

Author:Nicholas A. Christakis

“First and foremost, you do not have to live up to or emulate the lives of any of your predecessors. But at the very least, you should know about them. You will have your own life, interests, and ideas of what you want or do not want in life. Do what you enjoy doing. Be honest with yourself and others. Don't think of satisfying anyone: your elders, peers, government, religion, or children who will come after you. Develop meaningful ideals, and become conscious of others, their existence, and their lives.”

“Women hock their jewels and their husbands' insurance policies to acquire an unaccustomed shade in hair or crêpe de chine. Why then is it that when anyone commits anything novel in the arts he should be always greeted by this same peevish howl of pain and surprise? One is led to suspect that the interest people show in these much talked of commodities, painting, music, and writing, cannot be very deep or very genuine when they so wince under an unexpected impact.”

“People do not get tired out from working where work is intelligently handled. Work, if it is interesting, is a stimulant. It's worry and a lack of interest in what one does that tire and discourage. Every one of us should have our pet interests-as many as we can handle efficiently and happily. Our interests should never be allowed to lag or get cold so that all enthusiasm is spent. Each day can be one of triumph if you keep up to your interests-feeding them as they feed you!”

People Ifs Should Doe Interest Work Interesting Worry Cold Should Have Tired Handle Enthusiasm Triumph Each Day Pet Feeding Tire Discouraging Lag Stimulants

Author:George Matthew Adams

“Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.”

Source: Naked emperors: essays of a taboo-stalker

“It is my purpose to disclose the mystery at once, and to ask you to look for your interest,--should you choose to go on with my chronicle,--simply in the conduct of my persons, during this disclosure to others.”

Should Looks Persons Purpose Asks Interest Mystery Goes On You Choose Disclosure Chronicles

Book:Dr. Wortle's School: Trollope's Works

Source: Dr. Wortle's School: Trollope's Works

“Organizing around a common interest is a fundamental part of democracy. We should no more try to take away the right of individuals to collectively bargain than we should try to take away the right to a secret ballot.”

Should Trying Individual Interest Common Secret Democracy Fundamentals Bargains Ballots Common Interests Collective Bargaining

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“Every woman who has any margin of time or money to spare should adopt some one public interest, some philanthropic undertaking,or some social agitation of reform, and give to that cause whatever time and work she may be able to afford.”

Giving Should May Able Social Causes Interest Responsibility Reform Philanthropy Spares Social Responsibility Margins Undertakings Philanthropic Agitation Public Interest

Book:The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures

Source: The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures

“The ongoing war in Afghanistan is being imposed on us, and Afghans are being sacrificed in it for someone else's interests. We are not blocking the interests of the United States or other major powers. But we are demanding that if you consider Afghanistan the place from which to advance your interests, then you should also pay attention to Afghanistan's interests.”

Ifs Should War States Reality Politics Interest Justice United Pay Attention United States Policy Majors Ethics Block Ideology Pay Attention Afghanistan Foreign Policy Diplomacy Ongoing

Author:Hamid Karzai