Famous quotes containing the words moral and/or interest:
“One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.”
—Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673)
“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)