Interests Quotes

If I don’t like a thing, I don’t like it, that’s all; and there is no reason under the sun why I should ape a liking for it just because the majority of my fellow-creatures like it, or make believe they like it. I can’t follow the fashions in the things I like or dislike.

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone.

Jane Ostin

Sense and sensibility

Marianne Dashwood

Intimacy

I mistrust the judgement of every man in case in which his own wishes are concerned.

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

Trust

Mistrust

It may be that there are other interests that come before those of the individual, but in favoring himself, he appears, as a rule, to favor others.

Therefore I say that it is a narrow policy to suppose that this country or that is to be marked out as the eternal ally or the perpetual enemy of England. We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.

Henry John Temple

England

Two questions. Who the hell was Seti the First, and was he rich?

I can't see the rationality
The world's not my responsibility
And happiness isn't there for me
But maybe I'll inch closer to the source
When I find true north
(with or without a friend. Keep searching 'til the end.)

A soul naturally seeks pleasure, consciously or not. The seeking manifests itself through knowledge and interests.

Explanation:

Gilgamesh is drunk and philosophizing.

Regarding international affairs, Putin pursues polices that he believes serve Russia’s national interests, with little attention paid to American interests.

Michael McFaul

Russia

USA

Patriot — one to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors.

Ambrose Bierce

The Devil's Dictionary

— Do you really think we should go to war?
— I think we should try to do as the King wants us to do.
— What if the King doesn't know what's in his best interests?
— Then we should help him decide.

The Tudors

Thomas More

Thomas Cardinal Wolsey

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