Moral Interest

Famous quotes containing the words moral and/or interest:

    On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one’s mind. It becomes a pleasure.
    Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God to the temporal interest of the clergy.
    David Hume (1711–1776)