Famous quotes containing the words moral and/or interest:
“Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms; but those which regard only the interest of the rulers are all defective and perverted forms, for they are despotic, whereas a state is a community of freemen.”
—Aristotle (384–322 B.C.)