#sake

The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of a larger social compact all the time. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#compact #first #fundamental #government #larger

To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee. ↗

— Herman Melville

#grapple #hate #heart #hell #i

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act. ↗

— Alice Meynell

#act #fathers #our #results #sake

Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change. ↗

— Ed Miliband

#challenged #change #hostile #how #impression

All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#character #color #end #must #natural

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one. ↗

— Henry Miller

#bad one #bit #good #idea #people

Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them. ↗

— Tracey Ullman

#i #important #just #me #principle

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#creation #love #own #sake #wealth

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#brings #cultivate #gain #highest #never

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#art #awake #day #mean #must