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)