The capital amassed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through various forms of slave economy is still in circulation, said De Jong, still bearing interest, increasing many times over and continually burgeoning anew.
W.G. SebaldTag: history capitalism economics slavery finance interest capital economic-history
When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.
Noah WebsterTag: trust sacrifice suffrage interest immorality abuse citizen betryal
It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellow-men to have an interest in your enterprise. The owner of the axe, as he released his hold on it, said that it was the apple of his eye; but I returned it sharper than I received it.
Henry David ThoreauSome people will make nonsense excuses to avoid things they have no interest in doing.
Ellen J. BarrierTag: excuses nonsense interest avoid
When anyone is going wrong, it is a mistake to warn him not to go further. It is also a mistake to leave him alone. The proper course is to call his attention to something better, and frame our conversation in such a way that he becomes wholly absorbed in the better. He will then forget his old mistakes, his old faults and his old desires, and will give all his life and power to the building of that better which has engaged his new interest.
Christian D. LarsonTag: life power mistake desires building attention faults interest better engaged absorbed
But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and technology.
Max BornTag: science politics experience knowledge men technology human interest relations
Facts and values are entangled in science. It's not because scientists are biased, not because they are partial or influenced by other kinds of interests, but because of a commitment to reason, consistency, coherence, plausibility and replicability. These are value commitments.
Alva NoëTag: science reason values consistency facts scientists bias interest plausibility coherence replication
In preparing the present volume, it has been the aim of the author to do full justice to the ample material at his command, and, where possible, to make the illustrations tell the main story to anatomists. The text of such a memoir may soon lose its interest, and belong to the past, but good figures are of permanent value. [Justifying elaborate illustrations in his monographs.]
Othniel Charles MarshTag: science story scientists value interest material command paleontologist anatomists illustrations monographs
If a problem is clearly stated, it has no further interest to the physicist.
Peter DebyeTag: humor science funny physics problem interest nobel-laureate scientist physicists
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