There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

I don’t think I would be interested in the climate at all if I had been like everyone else.

Babylon is everywhere. You have wrong and you have right. Wrong is what we call Babylon, wrong things. That is what Babylon is to me. I could have born in England, I could have born in America, it make no difference where me born, because there is Babylon everywhere.

As for our majority… one is enough.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

There are only two forces that unite men – fear and interest.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.

I’m interested in two things. I’m interested in truth and I’m interested in fairness.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

I was always interested – I mean, it’s kind of part of your job – I was always interested in the camera.

Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

I retain what’s interesting to me, but I don’t have a lot of strategic depth.

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it’s such an interesting part of their environment.

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don’t think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.

I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot – past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

I had not expected ‚A Brief History of Time‘ to be a best seller. It was my first popular book and aroused a great deal of interest. Initially, many people found it difficult to understand. I therefore decided to try to write a new version that would be easier to follow.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

I don’t believe in God but I’m very interested in her.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.

Every religious group, while perhaps a majority somewhere, is also inevitably a minority somewhere else. Thus, religious organizations should and do show tolerance toward members of other religious denominations.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

The truth is that the vast majority of Americans are good, fair, and just, and they want their country to reflect those ideals.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

When I’m really interested in something, I get superfocused on that. And I can spend hours upon hours not getting tired of reading about it and still be interested to learn more about it.

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

I’ve always been interested in science – one of my favourite books is James Watson’s ‚Molecular Biology of the Gene.‘

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Even in high school I was very interested in history – why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

Once people are aware of your presence, and perhaps vaguely intrigued, you need to stir their interest before it settles on someone else.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

I practiced drawing all the time and became very interested in it. If I was at a meeting that wasn’t getting anywhere – like the one where Carl Rogers came to Caltech to discuss with us whether Caltech should develop a psychology department – I would draw the other people.

I’m considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I’ve never been bored in my life.

Contention does not usually begin as strife between countries. More often, it starts with an individual, for we can contend within ourselves over simple matters of right and wrong. From there, contention can infect neighbors and nations like a spreading sore.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

My dad kind of liked racing and motorsports, but wasn’t a big fan, it wasn’t like he watched every race or whatever.

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.