#rests

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#environment #forests #humanity #trees #wilderness

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority. ↗

— George Bancroft

#best #development #few #free #government

The only thing that may make me different from other people is I have passionate interests outside of work. ↗

— Eric Bana

#i #interests #make #may #me

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#columns #confused #emit #familiar #forests

If I, taking care of everyone's interests, also take care of my own, you can't talk about a conflict of interest. ↗

— Silvio Berlusconi

#also #care #conflict #everyone #i

People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests. ↗

— James Bovard

#bad #bad government #docile #good #good government

My husband and I were very in love, and I had no reason to suspect that his interests lay anywhere else. ↗

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

#else #had #his #husband #i

Let us return, however, to the League of Nations. To create an organization which is in a position to protect peace in this world of conflicting interests and egotistic wills is a frighteningly difficult task. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#create #difficult #difficult task #however #interests

The wonderful thing about acting is that you can use all of your talents and interests in your work. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#acting #interests #talents #thing #use

Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members. ↗

— Peter Brimelow

#bosses #defense #group #interest #interests