Interests Quotes

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable, the art of the next best.

Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness….government in its best state is a necessary evil; in its worse state an intolerable one.

All friendship is preferring the interest of a friend, to the neglect, or perhaps, against the interest of others; so that an old Greek said, "He that has friends has no friend.

America is great precisely because it is an open society, and an open society recognizes that nobody is the ultimate arbiter — and that we may be wrong at times, even if we are powerful. We must be open to criticism and respect divergent and different views and interests.

A state worthy of the name has no friends—only interests. [This is a generalized expression of British Prime Minister John Henry Temple's statement a century earlier.

American interests dictate that we teach other peoples to govern themselves.

You make more friends by becoming interested in other people than by trying to interest other people in yourself.

States are supposed to have interests but no principles. I have principles but no interests.

America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests

When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.

I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.

Just go out and do things, and those things that continue to spark an interest, do more of.

I think Robbie Lawler is a good name and a fight that interests me.

We had to avoid wounding Austria too severely; we had to avoid leaving behind in her any unnecessary bitterness of feeling or desire for revenge; we ought rather to reserve the possibility of becoming friends again with our adversary of the moment, and in any case to regard the Austrian state as a piece on the European chessboard and the renewal of friendly relations as a move open to us. If Austria were severely injured, she would become the ally of France and of every other opponent of ours; she would even sacrifice her anti-Russian interests for the sake of revenge on Prussia.

You always have more than one goal in foreign policy.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

About other Democratic candidates: Never say that any of them is not qualified to be President. Never say any of them can't win. Never suggest that any of them is the tool of an group or interest ...

International negotiation has a nasty tendency to remind its practitioners that the laws of gravity affect them, too, and that international life is a two-way street in which one may have to give in order to get.

One man with beliefs is equal to a thousand with only interests.

Sometimes I am very pleased with lifestyle and sometimes I feel utterly worthless because I have so few interests.

Politics is war without the bloodshed.

Peace between leaders and peace on the ground will strengthen the interests of all.

All States do not have the same interests, but are there any interests which cannot be infinitely better reconciled before than after a war?

Never trust anyone without a vested interest.

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.