If you lend money to my people, to the poor among you, you shall not deal with them as a creditor; you shall not exact interest fr...om them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Just as the French of the nineteenth century invested their surplus capital in a railway-system in the belief that they would make... money by it in this life, in the thirteenth they trusted their money to the Queen of Heaven because of their belief in her power to repay it with interest in the life to come.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nature seems to have taken a particular Care to disseminate her Blessings among the different Regions of the World, with an Eye to... this mutual Intercourse and Traffick among Mankind, that the Natives of the several Parts of the Globe might have a kind of Dependance [sic] upon one another, and be united together by their common Interest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to re...ad the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... laws haven't the slightest interest for me--except in the world of science, in which they are always changing; or in the world... of art, in which they are unchanging; or in the world of Being in which they are, for the most part, unknown.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the gods have given you. It is now h...igh time to consider what sort of world you are part of, and from what kind of governor of it you are descended; that you have a set period assigned you to act in, and unless you improve it to brighten and compose your thoughts, it will quickly run off with you, and be lost beyond recovery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The government, which is the supreme authority in states, must be in the hands of one, or of a few, or of the many. The true forms... of government, therefore, are those in which the one, the few, or the many, govern with a view to the common interest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are th...erefore true forms; but those which regard only the interest of the rulers are all defective and perverted forms, for they are despotic, whereas a state is a community of freemen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is no doubt that the practice is a means of suppressing and controlling the sexual behaviour of women. Female circumcision i...s a physiological chastity belt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »