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Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests. -- P. T. Barnum
One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God. -- Anna Julia Cooper
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests. -- George Santayana
All taboos serve different human interests by avoiding those things which threaten to cause offence or distress -- Kate Burridge
One of the strange phenomena of the last century is the spectacle of religion dropping the appeal of fear while other human interests have picked it up. -- Harry Emerson Fosdick
The only knowledge that can truly orient action is knowledge that frees itself from mere human interests and is based in Ideas in other words knowledge that has taken a theoretical attitude. -- Jurgen Habermas
Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are best capable of developing values that succeed in satisfying human needs and serving human interests. -- Isaac Asimov
When all the mysticism is stripped away, the people who comprise the government (the legislators, administrators, judges, and policemen), are guided by human interests, desires, beliefs, notions, and prejudices, just like other people. They have neither superhuman wisdom nor extraordinary virtue. -- Hans F. Sennholz
The need for justice grows out of the conflict of human interests. That is to say, if there were no conflict of interests among mankind we should never have invented the word justice, nor conceived the idea for which it stands. -- Thomas Nixon Carver
I think it is natural that every country has to take care of its interests, but there are some interests that are common to all countries. There are some human interests, or we need also international cooperation. We've sometimes confused it with dictation. -- George Soros
The future of religion is connected with the possibility of developing a faith in the possibilities of human experience and human relationships that will create a vital sense of the solidarity of human interests and inspire action to make that sense a reality. -- John Dewey
Rather than comparing [war] to art we could more accurately compare it to commerce, which is also a conflict of human interests and activities; and it is still closer to politics, which in turn may be considered as a kind of commerce on a larger scale. -- Carl von Clausewitz
The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive force of the human intellect on one side, and the compression arising from traditionary faith and human interests on the other. -- John William Draper
Unless the fundamental categories of economics such as 'property' were to be redefined in a radically personal way the liberal rationalist curse which had established economics as a scientific discipline cut off from human interests would proliferate. Economic models ... have failed to incorporate any meaningful index of individual benefit other than the original utilitarian one, ... the index of increasing income or an increasing flow of commodities. -- John Carroll
The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests. -- Breyten Breytenbach
My life has been enriched by excellent human relations, work and interests. I have never felt lonely. -- Rita Levi-Montalcini
Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me. -- Damon Galgut
It is probable that Facebook boasts the broadest, deepest, and most comprehensive dataset of human information, interests, and activity ever collected. -- Jon Evans
Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries. -- Kjell Magne Bondevik
What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives. -- Tracy Kidder
Investing in women's lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in future generations - and consequently in our own long-term national interests. -- Liya Kebede
It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance. -- Barry Commoner
I've always liked to think ahead. Not stupid-far ahead. A hundred years doesn't interest me. But 20 years interests me, and more for what happens to humans as opposed to things. -- Albert Brooks
My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice. -- Eric Clapton
A nuclear-weapons armed Iran is not in anyone's human-rights interests. That is a direct threat to the lives and the livelihoods and the stability not only of the region but beyond. -- Hillary Clinton
The new narrative for Europe should be about the need to have a responsible organisation, the need to be able to defend our interests and promote our values, like human rights. -- Jose Manuel Barroso
My way of thinking as I approach any human being on this planet is, 'What are you doing now?' That's what interests me. I don't come at anybody with a whole bunch of assumptions. -- John Lydon
Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an explorer is you are in the unknown; you are out of your habits. -- Bertrand Piccard
This much I have learned: human beings come with very different sets of wiring, different interests, different temperaments, different learning styles, different gifts, different temptations. These differences are tremendously important in the spiritual formation of human beings. -- John Ortberg
The World Trade Organization is an organization that defends trade interests. I think the problem is less that they exist. The problem is that internationally we've only got an organization that protects trade interests. Surely we need some kind of counterweight to protect human rights and the environment, too. -- Noreena Hertz
Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace. -- Ingrid Newkirk
People are largely ignorant of the interests of the human species. -- Ibn Khaldun
The unfolding of the bare human soul...that is what interests me. -- Bruce Lee
What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape: it is the human figure. -- Henri Matisse
It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion. -- Isaac Asimov
We have allowed the interests of capital to outweigh the interests of human beings and our Earth. -- Desmond Tutu
The interests we share as human beings are far more powerful than the forces that drive us apart. -- Barack Obama
Micro trends matter more than macro ones, but most of all, people matter. Individual human beings with names and wants and interests. -- Seth
Treat all economic questions from the viewpoint of the consumer, for the interests of the consumer are the interests of the human race. -- Frederic Bastiat
Not sense data or atoms or electrons or packets of energy, but purposes, interests, and meanings, constitute the underlying facts of human experience. -- Lewis Mumford
One of the sources of pride in being a human being is the ability to bear present frustrations in the interests of longer purposes. -- Helen Lynd
Whenever the dollar is held supreme and capitalistic interests dominate, a higher value will always be placed upon property rights than upon human rights. -- Dick Gregory
What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives -- Tracy Kidder
What interests me is love, sex, death, cruelty, compassion and the desire for meaning in an apparently godless universe. In other words the human condition. -- Glen Duncan
Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and units of power. -- Eric Hoffer
Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to be people like us. -- Robert Byron
All my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large. -- H. P. Lovecraft
This policy of supplying by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of human affairs, both private and public. -- James Madison

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