Top 1200 Interest Groups Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

To a considerable degree, all minority groups suffer from the same state of marginality with its haunting consequences of insecurity, conflict, and irritation.

Despite Obama's claim that pro-Second Amendment groups want less gun safety, the opposite is true.

I write books for all age groups - young kids, teenagers and adults - because I get a range of different ideas.

Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.

It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes.

I rest a bit more when I keep. The only thing I have to look after is my back and using different muscle groups.

Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups.

A lot of industry groups have said they support a federal law. They don't want to have to deal with 50 different state laws.

Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure - but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico, or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties. It is to be looked on with other reverence, because it is not a partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of a temporary and perishable nature.

In entertainment, whether it's movies or television or whatever, I'm a great audience, but I don't remember the names of the people I've seen or the groups that I've heard.

Portland is where all the fringe groups went to escape. Where the outliers brought that DIY, punk rock attitude and made the city their own.

I have felt at times with groups of children that I was really being what every poet would like to be - a bard in the old sense.

The smartest groups, then, are made up of people with diverse perspectives who are able to stay independent of each other.

Pakistan is not about to crack down on terror groups or cut its military budget in order to build roads, schools and hospitals.

Why do we not exhaust the heritage of the ages, spiritual and material for our immediate pleasure, and let posterity go hang? So far as simple rationality is concerned, self-interest can advance no argument against the appetite of present possessors. Yet within some of us, a voice that is not the demand of self-interest or pure rationality says that we have no right to give ourselves enjoyment at the expense of our ancestors' memory and our descendants' prospects. We hold our present advantages only in trust.

Put simply, we are still at war with radical Islamic groups and an ideological movement that can't be ignored nor wished away.

People get involved not just in politics but in groups and sects and... forget the main reason why we're here: to worship Allah.

There are numerous groups across the country, both local and national, that are working to prevent gun violence in our communities.

In the automotive domain, generally speaking, when you look at consortium models, the groups that have leading technology are less incentivized to contribute to the consortia.

Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.

Well mine is not gimmicky - it is the 6 food groups that God made, and exercising every day. Trying to think positively.

Cultivate an ever-continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents.

Never short of guns and guerrillas, Afghanistan has proven fertile ground for a host of insurgent groups in addition to the Taliban.

I think one of the things you have to learn if you're going to create believable characters is never to make generalizations about groups of people.

People will always want to get together in groups at plays and have the contagious thing of someone laughing with them.

We need a strong civil society where the connection between different people and groups is firm and vibrant, not brittle and divided.

If you look at little kids and wild animals, these are two groups of things that whenever I'm with them forces me to be in the moment.

It is my understanding that some groups who are opposed to visiting our campus are basing their decision on Liberty's concealed carry policy.

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

My comments concerning persons afflicted with AIDS as well as various minority groups have left people wondering if I am a racist.

The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmoth.

Typically cult groups target universities and colleges. Most likely those schools that maintain campus housing.

If Pakistan and ISI stop supporting terrorist groups, security situation in South Asia would improve significantly.

We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.

Privileged groups, like everyone else, want to think well of themselves and to believe that they are acting generously and justly.

Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.

I welcome the work that the Clinton Global Initiative has done with groups and individuals like Bono and all that's happened around the world.

Power in the hands of particular groups and classes serves like a prism to refract reality through their own perspective.

I think the Iraqis themselves will have to make a determination as to what type of government they ultimately come up with and what kind of nation they ultimately come up with. But they can continually use America's troops presence. The problem is not going to change until they are confronted with the reality that they have to make decisions and they have to make them themselves. They have to decide whether they want a country, whether they're willing to put their lives on the line and sacrifice for a national interest as opposed to a regional or sectarian interest.

I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other.

It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its pristine energy.

Islamist groups have gained influence at local and national level by playing the politics of identity and demanding for Muslims the 'right to be different.'

Organized groups claiming roots in religious ideologies have unleashed an all-pervasive fear of mob violence in many parts of the country.

We don't do focus groups - that is the job of the designer. It's unfair to ask people who don't have a sense of the opportunities of tomorrow from the context of today to design.

Single men and determined groups have been the only makers of space in which man could walk free.

Food ... love ... mother ... career ... Live every day to the fullest. Partake of the four basic guilt groups.

There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.

Fairway: a narrow strip of mown grass that separates two groups of golfers looking for lost balls in the rough.

I am only about half alive - a large part of my strength is consumed in sitting up or walking. My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored & listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me. However - so many things do interest me, & interest me intensely, in science, history, philosophy, & literature; that I have never actually desired to die, or entertained any suicidal designs, as might be expected of one with so little kinship to the ordinary features of life.

I think Radiohead and Outkast are the two modern popular groups who you can actually say that about. We take inspiration from everywhere.

That's because of everything the public interest and the media interest is focused on: What did Donald Trump know and when did he know it? Whether there was cooperation with the Russians. I don't mean to say that's a distraction or we shouldn't follow it up. But the underlying story of the Russians trying to subvert our democracy, both through propaganda, planted stories, manipulation of social media and through direct efforts to infiltrate our state election system, is really an enormously significant event. And it's not over.

It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers.

We're in three living groups, 'cause even after the world's ended some assholes still can't get along.

People get recruited from sketch groups and put on 'Mad TV' and 'SNL,' but those aren't ensembles, they're all-star teams.

It’s in our interest to take care of others. Self-centrednes s is opposed to basic human nature. In our own interest as human beings we need to pay attention to our inner values. Sometimes people think compassion is only of help to others, while we get no benefit. This is a mistake. When you concern yourself with others, you naturally develop a sense of self-confidence . To help others takes courage and inner strength.

There are a lot of people who don't think girl groups last very long, but Girls' Generation wants to break that theory.

All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.

I know it's very idealistic and utopian, but I believe we need to just let everyone not be judged in terms of religion, groups or nations or region.

Fundamentalist groups like Christian Embassy have infiltrated the very top of the U.S. military and gained positions of influence in the Pentagon.

A small knowledge of human nature will convince us, that, with far the greatest part of mankind, interest is the governing principle... Few men are capable of making a continual sacrifice of all views of private interest, or advantage, to the common good. It is vain to exclaim against the depravity of human nature on this account; the fact is so, the experience of every age and nation has proved it and we must in a great measure, change the constitution of man, before we can make it otherwise. No institution, not built on the presumptive truth of these maxims can succeed.