Each man seeks his own interest, not the general interest. Let his own selfish interests be touched, and all concord is at an end.
Externally China desires independence, internally she seeks to maintain her existence as a nation; China therefore strives to loose the bonds that bind her people, and to complete the establishment of a new State.
Fiction, at its best, is a radical act of intimacy. It seeks to join, to merge, to know deeply; and, as with intimacy, there is a way in which it cannot be faked.
Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.
Anybody who seeks wealth as an end in itself is always going to be disappointed. What you really should be doing is seeking excellence in achievement.
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
Evil exists. Evil is real. One of the hallmarks of evil is that it seeks to convince its victims that it exists ‘out there.’
India seeks to be a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council… things like this don’t happen automatically, you need constant dialogue and discussion with the world.
Every elite seeks its own perpetuation, of course, but that project is uniquely difficult in a society that’s formally democratic and egalitarian and colorblind.
The man who seeks to please God is the man who people are pleased with. The man who seeks to please others won’t satisfy anyone.
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
